Published : The Mystery Book on Tar Press

Tar Press publish new short fiction on twitter, in an episodic unleashing over one long Sunday. The editor, Henry Johns, shared my tale, The Mystery Book, along with illustrative photos I took on the trip that inspired the story.

Henry said of the work, “In this story we’ll follow the narrator on a walk. But there’s a notable disparity between the passing of diegetic time and reading time. We’ll spend about two days following this walk that presumably took the narrator just a few hours.”

You can read the other Tar Press tales in their archive https://www.tarpress.co.uk/, including an excellent one by Tom Jenks. I have been on record saying twitter is something I am partially ashamed to engage with, but you have to try to make that which is corrosive bountiful, even if it’s inherently a failure, so good on Tar Press for doing what they do, and I was happy to be a part of it.

Here are six parts of a 20 something part story. You can read the whole story at www.stevenjfowler.com/themysterybook

A note on : Phone interview with Henry Johns of Tar Press

This chat was in aid of a new piece of short fiction being published with Tar Press, so editor Henry Johns phoned me up and we spoke. We spoke about lemon smell, axes, courses, warhammer and the story itself. Tar press publishes fiction on twitter, trying to do something good in a bad place. https://www.tarpress.co.uk/