Dafydd McKimm: 'I write this kind of story in a bit of a fever'
This summer, we've heard from AL Kennedy, Pete Segall and Ali McClary. We'll be bringing this series to a close with Sheyla Smanioto, but this time Dafydd McKimm steps into the consulting room with his short story The Nosebleed.
McKimm tells us how The Nosebleed was a story that came to him with the ending already in place, citing the translator Michael Hofmann and his notion of Kafka time, where it's "already too late".
With this type of story, the author says, "You just set the ball rolling and the characters fruitlessly struggle against the inevitability of that ending."
Even though McKimm…
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