{"id":154,"date":"2016-12-18T23:05:52","date_gmt":"2016-12-18T23:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistacircus.com\/mk.com\/?page_id=154"},"modified":"2017-06-05T09:41:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T09:41:59","slug":"b-sides","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/montaguekobbe.com\/index.php\/books\/tales-of-bed-sheets-and-departure-lounges\/b-sides\/","title":{"rendered":"B-SIDES"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been fascinated with the short-short story as a genre, micro <\/em>stories, as you would call them in Spanish, for a long time. Brief, compact, deictic, these are the literary equivalent to a physical gesture–a finger pointing to an isolated incident in the middle of the dark empty night which forces the reader to create some, any, form of context.<\/p>\n

The earliest tales included in Bed Sheets and Departure Lounges\u00a0<\/em>date back to 2005, though the collection didn’t really take shape until three or four years later. One of the first stories was “Un amor perfecto<\/a>“, which appeared in Letralia<\/a> in 2009.<\/p>\n

Many micro stories didn’t make it to the collection, though some have found a home elsewhere. One of them was adapted to the photo project “54 semanas<\/a>” by Erik Molgora also in 2009. Another one, “Cold War<\/a>” was featured in the “Summer Readings” section of Sint Maarten’s The Daily Herald <\/em>a couple of years later. More recently, Akashic<\/a> published a dizzying account of extravagant habits titled “Knock Yourself Out<\/a>” and then asked me to write a little piece to introduce their new flash fiction series Duppy Thursday. “El Silb\u00f3n<\/a>” was the result.<\/p>\n

Here’s some of the discards and extra material that never made it to Tales of Bed Sheets and Departure Lounges<\/em>:<\/p>\n