headlong
The first six chapters of my debut novel are now online.headlong (a novel)
You can know a pivotal moment as soon as it has passed. A short, sharp snap in time. The crack of collapse. This is the millisecond when the waters break in the back of a London Taxi, or the road lets go of the tyres and the car starts to roll. Overturned. You know the sort of thing. Or maybe years pass before you spot the momentary before and after split, seemingly tiny now in the rear view mirror. It makes no difference; noticing, not noticing. It arrives as you quietly expect more of yesterday, when you knew what was what and how to be. Crack. Then it passes, things change. And your small, frail certainty careers in a breathtaking diversion. Time to find your mettle or time to run. Chance and choices, endings and beginnings. Life turning on a sixpence. It is bound to hurt. Ask Joe. More »