Sugar With Spice
A Collection of Short Fiction
Kieran York
In an unusual introductory short story, the author says: We’ve all been waltzed around by love and picked clean by love. Slice and dice of the heart. Spice and dykes of the trousers. And there have been those glistening moments of captivation. Hearts touching. Clutching in love. History unwinds and memories flow. Bitter-sweet reminiscences of raffish youth and the lessons of sorrow.
There are three dozen short stories. Sex sequins dot the pages. Sweetness flavors and savors some of the happy-ending dreams. This was not a collection meant to play roulette with a reader’s sensibilities. I was compelled to intersperse the pale with the plucky. I crave shock value, and I’m going to get it, I roared.
Today Kieran York discloses the writing journey of years ago. Laughing, she remembers, ‘I’d go into the lesbian bar once a week – on Friday night. There were some women I knew, and some I didn’t. It didn’t matter, they would talk, and I would listen, inquire, and recall what they discussed.
‘Some women’s most interesting event would be related, some were memories from their past. I’d make notes, or memorize, those fragmented tales.
‘I’d read Chaucer. Taking a page from his tell-alls, I simply gathered barroom literature. And then, I tweaked it. Short fiction was reconstructed, rearranged, and written from narrative, anecdotes, yarns, and legends. Each fable, and sometimes several would merge, to make the ‘no-partition’ story.
‘Throughout the weekend, I’d finish the work. Each week there was an addition to my collection. Finally, it felt like enough stories to make a book – and it was SUGAR WITH SPICE.’
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Details
| ISBN | 934411247 |
| Genre | Short Story Collection (Single Author) |
| Publication Date | Nov-89 |
| Publisher | Banned Books |
| Format | Trade Paperback |
| No. of Pages | 176 |
| Language | English |
| Rating | NotRated |
| Subject | Fiction |
| BookID | 12676 |
