We welcome Kit Harding, author of “Make of Me a Comet” in The Future Fire #60.
TFF: What does “Make of Me a Comet” mean to you?
…really asking the easy ones, aren't you? Y'all may have noticed I'm a relatively new writer, hovering about the semipro magazines and anthologies with a few successful rounds of pro. The questions Elsa is asking herself are ones I imagine a lot of new creative professionals ask themselves: will anyone look at my work? Will anyone like it? Will anyone care about it? Will anyone remember me? Certainly they're questions I ask, frequently. And as with most writers, I put a story into it.
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| Illustration ©2022 Cécile Matthey |
TFF: What are you working on next?
As if I could ever have only one thing that I'm working on next! I'm a very exciting mix of several short stories and worldbuilding a novel.
Extract:
I was always glad, in the watching, that I was not Elsa.
Don’t get me wrong, she was one of my closest friends, but she was also the most demon-ridden person I had ever been close to. She wanted things, and wanted them ferociously. There were times when I envied her knowledge of what she wanted—not knowing my own desires had certainly caused me pain in the past—but then I looked at the price she paid for that certainty and the envy always vanished.
Reminder: You can comment on “Make of Me a Comet” or any of the stories or illustrations in this issue at http://press.futurefire.net/2022/01/new-issue-202260.html
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