Author Archives: Joel Swift
The Real Parliamentary Candidate Interview…
Below follows a fictitious conversation between a reporter, Geoff, and a parliamentary candidate. It is based on true events. Q: How are you? A: Well, I think the question here is not how I am but how the other party has made me be for the last 13 years. I mean, really, we should look […]
The Six Word Challenge
After Ernest Hemingway was allegedly challenged to write a story in six words, he eventually arrived at ‘for sale: baby shoes, never worn’. Of course, this is profound, deep and unbeatably imaginative creation. I want to immediately ask ‘whose baby? Why never worn? Would the shoes fit me, mine have holes in?’, and can see […]
