Felix Taylor’s story “The Year of the Bright Lands” was published in Metaphorosis on Friday, 25 March 2022. The idea to write “The Year of the Bright Lands” came with an image of a row of crops suspended over an abyss, buffeted around by a mysterious wind from below. Then came the decision to write a story about two children who find a way down into the abyss. I don’t usually go for plot when …
Q: If you could have a meal with a character from any classic novel, whom would you choose?
A: I think a picnic on the river with Rat from Wind in the Willows would be something special, if only for the landscape. Otherwise it might be Dostoyevsky’s idiot, Prince Myshkin, for his beautiful nature and frank conversation.
Felix Taylor’s story “The Year of the Bright Lands”
in Metaphorosis Friday, 25 March 2022.
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Felix Taylor is a writer and librarian, living in Oxford, UK. His work tends towards the weird and fantastic. As an ex-academic, he has published on Arthur Machen, John Cowper Powys, and animal ethics.
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Felix Taylor’s story “The Year of the Bright Lands”
in Metaphorosis Friday, 25 March 2022.
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