Dry County
- 25th September 2017
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Our Story of the Week is Dry County, a mystery story from the writer David Lewis.
David Lewis grew up and went to university in Oklahoma before moving to London where he completed an MA in Literature at UCL. Since then he has lived and worked in Paris.
David started writing at the age of nine by entering a school writing competition with a short story called Cindy to the Rescue. It was about a heroic nine-year-old girl who single-handedly stops a ring of international groundhog smugglers. Thanks to heavy edits by his father, David won the prize. Since then his short stories and fiction have been published in J’aime mon quartier, je ramasse, Chelsea Station, The Fish Anthology, Liars’ League London, Indestructible, Willesden Herald: New Short Stories 9, and Talking Points Memo. He also irregularly posts essays and translations on Medium.
Some of his favourite writers include Gustave Flaubert, Shirley Jackson and Vladimir Nabokov.
In Dry County, David creates a darkly mysterious story that’s so gripping you’ll have to be careful it doesn’t pull you under!
Enjoy!
‘Frustrating times. Glenn had worked as a junior caretaker at Whittaker Park since he was twenty. That meant lawn-mower or leaf-raker, depending on the season. After ten years he’d persuaded his boss to promote him to caretaker. That meant lawn-mower or leaf-raker, depending on the season.
Frustrating times.
Frustrating in all ways. It was no surprise when the most eventful month of Glenn’s life started with other people having sex.’ Read more…