barth_sophie

This story was written to respond to the theme of the ideastap brief "family". It is written as an Oulipo text: The constraint being that every third word has been erased. This enables the reader to insert his/her own words, and also portraying the main character's problem of remembering what happened.

A scene from the second edit of Mushrooms! ? ACT I Scene 1 A small hut in the forest. The interior is simple: a table, four chairs and heavy red velvet curtains covering up the only window. There are bottles scattered around the place - some of them full, others half-full. Two candles lighten up the table, and the rest of the room is plunged in a strange darkness. The Bird Brothers sit facing each other, playing with a deck and poker chips, having a good time. Icarus looks occasionally to one of the corners of the room, to...

Experimental text to investigate how I could write about fairy tale character Der Sandmann. I have done my own interpretation, so some elements are familiar and others not.