Personal Attention Roleplay by H. Felix Chau Bradley

Also, that you don’t have to do a writing degree to be published and read.ĭo you have any writing projects in the works right now? That there’s no Right Time to start writing, there’s no Perfect Story Idea that has to come together in your head in order to make your desire to write “legitimate.” If you want to write, the time to try is probably now. What do you wish you had known when you first started writing? Being around books my whole life made me determined to write my own, and the urgency of that desire eventually became strong enough to trump my fear of failure. Of course, I can’t come close to these writers, but the attempt was what drove these stories to exist, and I think that’s still worthwhile.ĭescribe your writing style in five words or less. I like the puzzle-like aspect of it: what can be achieved, how much tension can be built and destroyed within the brief space of a short piece? I wanted to try injecting a variety of queer, Asian standpoints into the types of eerie, unsettling short stories I like best-work by writers like Mariana Enríquez, Yoko Tawada, Julio Cortázar, Mercè Rodoreda, to name a few. I’ve always been drawing to the short story as a form, the way that it allows for experimentation within a tight frame. Its protagonists are sometimes isolated, sometimes multiply voiced-and more often than not queer, Asian, and disoriented by the details of the contemporary world.

The stories in Personal Attention Roleplay explore the excitement, dread, and disappointment of intimacy, whether between friends, lovers, bandmates, or family members-sometimes even with the dead. Can you tell us about your book in three sentences or less?

Personal Attention Roleplay by H. Felix Chau Bradley