Okay, so, just to clear up, my new series of short stories are split across two formats, but I’m counting them as one series. Some of them are video micro fiction, such as “Dreadnought”, “Ancient Stones”, and “Cat Lady” — short sharp blasts of fiction to get your day started. And now, in partnership with the brilliant Terrier Productions, BRG is putting out some longer stories, beginning with the story extracted from my latest book, Abandon All Hope, called “Sandcastle Dynasty: A Welsh Short Story About the Welsh Short Story”.

“Ecorché” (apologies, but I don’t seem to be able to get the acute diacritic above the capital “E” on substack) is the second of the audio short stories. I have written them specifically for this format, written for me to read, and for your ears to receive (if you are so inclined.

This story is a short dedication to the much-observed stresses of the job interview.

Please feel free to share, like, and leave a comment.

I hope you enjoy it.

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Gary Raymond talks to playwright, screenwriter, and, now, memoirist, Abi Morgan about her relationship to the craft of storytelling.

Abi Morgan

This Is Not a Pity Memoir

Peak Practice

Jeremy Brock

Stephen Jeffries

Priest by Jimmy McGovern

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I’m Gary Raymond, novelist, broadcaster, critic, editor, and common-garden-variety literary obsessive, and I am here to tell you about The Storyteller, a new podcast where I talk to writers such as Sarah Waters, Abi Morgan, Niall Griffiths and many others, about their relationship with the art of storytelling. I want to get into the marrow of the mechanics, as well as the magic, of storytelling, and I’m going to do it by talking to some masters of the craft. And you can listen to it from September in all the usual places you get your podcasts.

The Storyteller podcast forms part of the extended universe of my new substack fiction serial, JellyBread, where, after a lifetime of enjoying, studying, obsessing, over the art of storytelling, and writing three novels and a mountain of articles, I’m picking apart everything I’ve learned to tell the story of my hometown in a newsletter novel format. The Storyteller, alongside some short articles where I muse on matters of process, is the place where I’ll be discussing the things that make stories tick – from influences, to theory, to the building blocks – join me over the next few months to find out just what makes the art of storytelling so powerful.

You can subscribe to Gary Raymond's JellyBread substack here https://garyraymond.substack.com/p/welcome-to-gary-raymonds-jellybread

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