Just because I published ‘Red Gloves’, my own anniversary collection, doesn’t mean that I’ve stopped writing short stories. Commissions continue to come in, but between them I sometimes write to amuse myself. In this particular case I dreamt the idea – dreams are usually too illogical and fragmented to be worked into anything else, but ‘The Caterpillar Flag’ worked rather well, so I got up and put it down on paper. Completists (and you know who you are) are welcome to print it out and tuck it into some other book – I can’t imagine it will ever see the light of day anywhere else but here!
© Christopher Fowler June 5th 2012
Brilliant!!!!
Hi Chris,
I might ,I might not.
LOL
STALKY
Very nice.
An addition: Been watching the Jubilee and cut away to say: You guys always do this stuff so well. And today’s events are Excellent. Loved the beaver hats being thrust up in the Hip-Hip… Now, if the Olympics come off as well. Oh, and it’s nice to see the Queen in an open vehicle; never see that here, not since Dalles. A shame. Congrats.
Delightful!
And there within was “diurnal,” a word I had only recently come across once prior, while reading a little tome about the life of hedgehogs.
Thank you for imagining/writing/sharing this great story. Two thumbs up!
Loved it. Refreshing and delightful.
Wonderful little tale. Well done, Chris.
Not a completist but I made a copy. Very nice, indeed. Thank you.
I think the second paragraph might be one of the best descriptions of time and place I’ve ever read. Just being honest, not sucking up.
Loved the line ‘the last of the nuns had died of disappointment in 1973…”
thanks for our Jubilee present
Ta for that Chris…you’re a Diamond ‘Jubilee’ Geezer!
@Stephen, I liked that line very much, too. It said so much about the place with so few words. That’s also a very special year to me, so the mention of it made me smile.
very nice!
I kept waiting for it to take a dark turn since I just read your Red Gloves book, shame on me!