very flash. so I'm coming away with suicide as the subtly implied solution. though unfinished stories is the flash style.
how about a noir style centered on a jazz musician who finds himself wrapped up in... something ... in the basement of an new jazz club with a strange and idiosyncratic owner
"My First Murder Mystery" suggests there will be others to follow. Alas, no Ginny Beech series. Hint: if you want to spin out a successful franchise maybe don't kill the protagonist in the first story.
...in-the-know, tongue-in-cheek, appealing and often evanescent fever-dream somehow caught in full flight out of the ether, and then, ...light keyboard polish, hit "send", refracted facets on a mirrorball of golden era memes; perhaps a few more trenchcoats and wide-brimmed hats in the future? (or ...EI's next "short spy piece"/ "noir" sketch)?
..wish I'd more familiarity with the works that influenced and combined to inhabit work "respectfully dedicated to Vince Keenan, Ray Banks, and Lawrence Block"..., and to catch the references and sentence types...
Curious if compact series of shorts might shortly appear to entertain....
Congrats on a new "first" :) impatient to hear more new EI music...
thank you for very kind and perceptive words! It took about 90 minutes to write, so you are on it about “fever-dream.” Vince, Ray, and Lawrence are friends I text with about crime fiction stuff. (Of course, Lawrence is famous.) New records coming soon! Probably not much more flash fiction in me but stranger things have happened…
https://www.paristheaternyc.com/series/noir-city-new-york-2026
nb: "hercules" snuck in there a couple times.
very flash. so I'm coming away with suicide as the subtly implied solution. though unfinished stories is the flash style.
how about a noir style centered on a jazz musician who finds himself wrapped up in... something ... in the basement of an new jazz club with a strange and idiosyncratic owner
"My First Murder Mystery" suggests there will be others to follow. Alas, no Ginny Beech series. Hint: if you want to spin out a successful franchise maybe don't kill the protagonist in the first story.
*makes note*
Goofy and gutsy!! Fun!
Haha thanks!
A new career in the offing?
Had me going. Well done.
thank you!
...in-the-know, tongue-in-cheek, appealing and often evanescent fever-dream somehow caught in full flight out of the ether, and then, ...light keyboard polish, hit "send", refracted facets on a mirrorball of golden era memes; perhaps a few more trenchcoats and wide-brimmed hats in the future? (or ...EI's next "short spy piece"/ "noir" sketch)?
..wish I'd more familiarity with the works that influenced and combined to inhabit work "respectfully dedicated to Vince Keenan, Ray Banks, and Lawrence Block"..., and to catch the references and sentence types...
Curious if compact series of shorts might shortly appear to entertain....
Congrats on a new "first" :) impatient to hear more new EI music...
thank you for very kind and perceptive words! It took about 90 minutes to write, so you are on it about “fever-dream.” Vince, Ray, and Lawrence are friends I text with about crime fiction stuff. (Of course, Lawrence is famous.) New records coming soon! Probably not much more flash fiction in me but stranger things have happened…
ooooooooohhhh, texting w crime fiction buddies, ...I'm going to savor that for a few moments. That is really the cat's pajamas..
Game for you/interested (another prose style I'd love to see "you wear the mask" for...)
Hint - Truman Capote:
Question: ...guess the movie
Petersen:
You mean Mrs. Chelm is an unqualified liar?
BD:
Well, let's say she uses her imagination rather than her memory.
***
GC:
Harry, we must beware of these men. They are desperate characters.
HC:
What makes you say that ?
GC:
Not one of them looked at my legs!
***
O'Hara:
I come from a culture which is so much older than yours. In my country, a child of 6 years old is older in his heart than you'll be at, at 60.
BD:
It smokes, it drinks, it philisophizes... at this rate I'll be 60 before you get to the point.
Going further out beyond the trend set by PBS's recent "Crazily sexy yet bizarrely British" Inspector Maigret
Loved this. I carelessly read it without noticing at first that it was made up. All too plausible... most of the way through that is...
Haha. Yes well I put a lot of my genuine emotion into to this fiction!