The author wrote fragments of fiction every day for 2500 days between 1995 and 2002. The result is The Archive Carpet, a wild and wonderful ride over lands that are sad, funny, absurd, and scary.
He has selected, revised, and arranged approximately 600 in The Archive Carpet, a weaving together of strands from his personal imaginative archive.
The book starts with a prologue of 52 sentences followed by three parts divided into sections. Fanciful titles abound, such as “The Calculus of the Garden’s Edge” and “A Burbling Farther Down in the Pit”.
This is fiction, yet there is a poetic spare quality to the writing. In addition to reading these fragments for their own delight, these short pieces will inspire creative writers and students looking to launch short stories of their own.
Sample pieces:
The Meeting He went through the door and into his office. In his desk chair sat a woman he did not recognize. She asked him to close the door.
Staying a Little Longer He almost left her that night, but decided to stay a little longer. But he cried a lot after he went to bed. She rolled over and faced the other way and did nothing to comfort him.
About the author: Michael Hetherington’s collection of short stories, The Late Night Caller, was published by Turnstone Press of Winnipeg in 2003.
“It is with a remarkable sense of freedom that Michael Hetherington unleashes his imagination in this collection of writings.” - North Shore News
“… There is a lot of good, old-fashioned Jungian fun in Michael Hetherington’s collection, in addition to wonderfully luminous prose and a conundrum that keeps teasing at the edges of this reader’s mind. He provides us with a balm for our humdrum condition—a magic cure for conventional existence. I highly recommend it.” - Books in Canada
The prologue to his collection of fragments of fiction, The Archive Carpet (Passfield Press), was published in Geist magazine and other excerpts from the book have appeared in The New Quarterly, Lichen, and Exile.
Michael Hetherington has bachelors degrees from Queen’s University and the University of British Columbia and a masters degree in International Relations from the London School of Economics. He is the father of a teenage son and daughter and lives in North Vancouver. To learn more about Michael Hetherington, visit michaelhetherington.ca.
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