The Cabinet of Heed published my short story, Soliloquy of the Ring, earlier this week. What can I say about this story? Sometimes you write something simply because you need to write something ridiculous. You never really plan on sharing it with the world, but then one day you find a literary review that very specifically says send us your weird stories, so you think, what the hell, and send it on its way. Well, now here it is, a very strange story out in the public eye.
Soliloquy of the Ring can best be described as the combination of a story a friend once told me about the dark phase of a post break up recovery and a Shakespearian tragedy. One of the more fun things about writing it was figuring out the correct usages of all the thine and thy and thou and so forth.
Soliloquy of the Ring was written in May of 2019. It was first submitted for publication in January of 2021, accepted for publication in February, and now published in March. It was never rejected, though mostly because I didn’t have the balls to send it out to any other literary reviews. I hope you enjoy it.