Six Degrees

by Rae Stoltenkamp

When you write a novel, peripheral characters often ask you to tell their side of the story. At times their voices are so loud and persistent in your head that they are hard to ignore. Six Degrees grew out of this and my desire to play with the short story form as well as try my hand at Flash Fiction.
In these vignettes several peripheral characters from Six Dead Men and its prequel, Palindrome, tell the reader what they think of the Deed family (mum – Rowena, Dad – Arthur, son – Robert). Sometimes the Deeds get to say their piece too. There are also hints of things to come in Palindrome. So as one of my favourite poets would say: read “wid de whole of yu eye”.

50 pages, Paperback

Published April 10, 2017

About the author

Rae Stoltenkamp was born in South Africa. She came to England in 1987 to visit family and liked the wet weather so much she stayed. A few years later she went on a writing holiday in Greece where she had an epiphany as she realised she should be writing on a more full time basis. After studying writing at City Lit with the poet Caroline Natzler Rae published her first novel. She has branched out and now writes poetry too.