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Thomas Ouphe’s story “The Diary of Thisne Ome” was published in Metaphorosis on Friday, 25 February 2022. “The Diary of Thisne Ome” kind of crept up on me, I couldn’t sleep one night and just started writing it on my tablet. I had been wanting to write about river monsters for a while and for whatever reason the muse stuck at about 1am. At that point I had no idea that Thisne was a girl’s …

A question for Thomas Ouphe

Q: What book or books inspired you as a child?

A: I very much lived in books as a child and there are almost too many to pick from. So I’ll go with a series that doesn’t get nearly enough love — Tim and the Hidden People by Sheila K McCullagh. I did love the easy-reader books of the series, but I am talking about the folk-magic laden fantasy of the four novellas: full of ley lines, amulets, and witchcraft. There are a lot of parallels with Susan Cooper’s Dark is Rising series (which I also loved). Sadly, I had to borrow school copies and it’s a struggle to get hold of them so they will have to stay a golden childhood memory.

Thomas Ouphe’s story “The Diary of Thisne Ome”
in Metaphorosis Friday, 25 February 2022.
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About Thomas Ouphe

When Nathaniel Hawthorne was the US consulate, he visited a small village churchyard and scraped the moss off an old stone to reveal the inscription:

Poorly lived and poorly died
Poorly buried and no-one cried

Thomas Ouphe lives very close to the churchyard and regularly goes looking for the stone when he’s walking his dog. He’s never found it but is romantically attracted to the graveyard because it also contains a lamppost that is said to have inspired the Narnia lamppost and the grave of the first author he ever read — Roger Lancelyn Green (Robin Hood and his Merry Men – in case that’s going to nag at you).

He’s the sort of person who likes to read and sit quietly. A homebody and bore, were he not so in love with an American woman he might never go out at all; except to walk the dog of course — he’s not a monster.

He and his wife have three wonderful children and in addition to a mad Staffordshire Terrier, they also have a sombre and sophisticated cat.

When he’s not writing (which to be honest is way more than he’d prefer), he teaches English at a college of further education.

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Thomas Ouphe’s story “The Diary of Thisne Ome”
in Metaphorosis Friday, 25 February 2022.
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