Just trying out the embedding of You-Tube clips via WordPress…was having some troubles, but an update looks like it stops the code from just dropping off the page when I hit update. It’s been flipping ages since I got a video clip to work on this site. To my sadness though, I seem to have lost the awesome banner that Nyssa Pascoe designed for me. Sigh.
It seems fitting that the attempt at embeddery is used to share the most ridiculous Gunners song. I think that “So Fine” was recorded as a joke, but it is hard to dislodge this early 90s ear-worm. I apologise for the excessive shots of Axl Rose’s junk, which the white shorts do little to disguise (or indeed, flatter).
The flash-fiction collective known as the Daily Cabal is winding its way to a dignified end, and myself and several of the previous contributors have given final short pieces of fiction to the site by way of goodbye.
My own piece “Shore-Birth” can be found at the following link:
This piece has much meaning for me, and I wrote it shortly after my son was born, and we first dipped his new toes into an almost still sea, on a weird muggy day. It became the opening for a much longer story, but I could never quite get it to work. This story narrates the birth (or rebirth) of Raoul Mithras, the protagonist of my WOTF winning story “The House of Nameless”.
So a story about birth amongst death seems an appropriate send-off for a noble venture. Something like four solid years of flash fiction, updated daily. Previous writers for the Daily Cabal included Angela Slatter, Sara Genge, Jeremiah Tolbert, Luc Reid, Daniel Braum, and Jason Erik Lundberg amongst many other talented and prodigious scribblers. Thanks for having me folks, it was a blast!
