Rae Stoltenkamp

Six Degrees Rae Stoltenkamp

When you write a novel, peripheral characters often ask you to tell their side of the story. At times their voice is so loud and persistent in your head that they are hard to ignore. Six Degrees grew out of this and my desire to play with the short story form as well as try my hand at Flash Fiction. In these vignettes several peripheral characters from Six Dead Men and its prequel, Palindrome, tell the reader what they think of the Deed family (mum - Rowena, Dad - Arthur, son - Robert). Sometimes the Deeds get to say their piece too. There are also hints of things to come in Palindrome. So as one of my favourite poets would say: read "wid de whole of yu eye".