KIERAN SHEA: Feel Like Bozo

BIO

KIERAN SHEA’s fiction has appeared in dozens of venues including Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Thuglit, Dogmatika, Word Riot, Plots with Guns, Beat to a Pulp, Crimefactory, and Needle: A Magazine of Noir ...as well as in some beefy-looking anthologies most of which will make you question the tether of his shiny, red balloon. To his self-deprecating astonishment he's also been nominated for the Story South’s Million Writers Award twice without sending the judges so much as a thank you note. He co-edited the satiric transgressive fiction collection D*CKED: DARK FICTION INSPIRED BY DICK CHENEY and his debut novel KOKO TAKES A HOLIDAY is out now from Titan Books. Kieran divides his time between 38°58′22.6″N- 76°30′4.17″W and 39.2775° N, 74.5750° W.

8/3/12

Feel Like Bozo

Okay. You know those breaks you tell yourself you should take from writing? My friend Chris Holm recently said, too long of a break and he starts to feel edgy. Oh, I get the edgy thing, Chris...but to me it recently feels like I'm swimming in clown shoes and a lead wetsuit. In a fog bank. With a slow, cold current helixing beneath me. But it's getting better. Today was okay. Got some done, but tomorrow I want to do better. One scratch at a time...a few hours, here and there, right. Whatever. Onward.