Ask the Author: Alex Burrett
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Alex Burrett
Terrified, I reached for my father's sturdy hand. He grabbed my quivering paw – then rammed it into the meat mincer.
Alex Burrett
Lilliput and Blefuscu.
I would be god to the tiny people who live there.
I would be god to the tiny people who live there.
Alex Burrett
Who the hell opened the door to the room I was sleeping in when I was eight years-old?
I was downstairs alone. Our Welsh farmhouse was a mile from the nearest neighbour. The external doors and windows were locked. It was pitch black – but I could see this person clearly. They disappeared in the blink of an eye. After I'd been resettled upstairs on my sister's bedroom floor, our cat wandered downstairs, then hissed terrifyingly when it reached the room the figure had appeared in. The cat flew upstairs and jumped onto my sister's bed – the hair on the whole of its body standing up vertically as if it had been electrified.
I really should write a story about this...
Wait a minute, I have. It provided inspiration for my novel Outstared by a Bullfrog.
I was downstairs alone. Our Welsh farmhouse was a mile from the nearest neighbour. The external doors and windows were locked. It was pitch black – but I could see this person clearly. They disappeared in the blink of an eye. After I'd been resettled upstairs on my sister's bedroom floor, our cat wandered downstairs, then hissed terrifyingly when it reached the room the figure had appeared in. The cat flew upstairs and jumped onto my sister's bed – the hair on the whole of its body standing up vertically as if it had been electrified.
I really should write a story about this...
Wait a minute, I have. It provided inspiration for my novel Outstared by a Bullfrog.
Alex Burrett
Ned and Joy in my short story 'What a Fix!' (from my collection 'My Goat Ate Its Own Legs').
They are my favourite fictional couple because they achieve the ultimate goal of sexual union – biological union. Biological union is the physiological desire, on a cellular level, that all living organisms have to undo the separation of self that commenced when life first forced the division of singular entities.
They are my favourite fictional couple because they achieve the ultimate goal of sexual union – biological union. Biological union is the physiological desire, on a cellular level, that all living organisms have to undo the separation of self that commenced when life first forced the division of singular entities.
Alex Burrett
Yes. 4 of them.
Alex Burrett
I find the opportunity to write such an incredible privilege that I need no further inspiration.
Alex Burrett
A gothic horror novella called 'Gothic Reflections'.
Which I hope will be the first of a series of Gothic Horrors.
Which I hope will be the first of a series of Gothic Horrors.
Alex Burrett
Be proud of your own voice.
Alex Burrett
Reflecting on life.
Alex Burrett
I don't even understand what writer's block is.
Is it writers terrified of negative responses to their work?
The problem for me isn't having ideas – it's having the time and headspace to pen them.
Is it writers terrified of negative responses to their work?
The problem for me isn't having ideas – it's having the time and headspace to pen them.
Alex Burrett
All my fiction starts with a philosophical thought. With 'Outstared by a Bullfrog', it was this...
Theists have a clear individual perception of what their god means to them. But what might god, if it existed, really think of us?
The protagonist in 'Outstared by a Bullfrog' undergoes an adulthood-long journey. His exploration begins with presuming god's level of interest in his life – and ends with him discovering it.
Theists have a clear individual perception of what their god means to them. But what might god, if it existed, really think of us?
The protagonist in 'Outstared by a Bullfrog' undergoes an adulthood-long journey. His exploration begins with presuming god's level of interest in his life – and ends with him discovering it.
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