Welcome to Not Quite Real, a place of suspended fictions.

I write stories about things I invent, or things that really happened, or things I invent inspired by things that really happened.

Or an amalgamation of all of them.

And because fiction always embeds an autobiographical component, whether consciously or unconsciously, I often can’t tell invention from non-invention, or dream from remembrance.

Every week I publish one of the following:

  1. a short piece of fiction, or autofiction;

  2. an issue from a series called Unsent Letters. These are letters penned (but never dispatched) to fictitious or real individuals who may or may not have influenced my life, not always mirroring actual events;

  3. an issue from a series called diaries, uninterrupted. These are imaginary journal entries -- generally one to three per issue -- written in a stream of consciousness style, meant to be read in one gulp of air, without pause.

This publication, formerly known as ‘The Semi-Serious View’, was featured on this edition of Substack Reads.

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Writing about things half-dreamed and half-remembered