https:\/\/www.samjokomagazine.com\/floating<\/a><\/p>\nI was inspired by Murakami when writing it, which is funny since it got acquired by a Korean lit mag. Murakami is a Japanese author, yet I wonder if it wasn\u2019t thanks to some of the tendencies in his writing that got the story sold to an Asian market, where weird, open-ended stories are more commonplace. Perhaps the geography of literature is better defined than I thought.<\/p>\n
In other news, I\u2019m on a trip to India with W! It\u2019s a wonderful country, the people are so friendly. I get many new writing ideas, though I can\u2019t utilize them since I\u2019m suffering from mild sleeplessness. Dogs are barking, we once woke up to a scream in the dead of the night, and people are honking constantly<\/em>. If something stands in their way, be it a person, a tuk-tuk, or a possibility of a person or tuk-tuk, it takes them less than a second to slam their klaxon and BEEP-BEEP-BEEEEEEEEP the fucker out.<\/p>\nThere was also this one situation I turned it into a horror flash-story. It was out first contact with India when we got off at the Delhi airport:<\/p>\n
I sit down in a cab and try to pull the seatbelt free out of its socket. The driver turns to me and smiles, white teeth shining.
\n<\/em>\u2018No seatbelt,\u2019 is all he says.
\n<\/em>I carefully put the seatbelt away. The man, still smiling, starts up the engine.<\/em><\/p>\nIn the next post I\u2019ll start sprinkling some info about my newest novel. Until then, safe travels!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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