There are short stories, and then there are Corwin Fox short stories - and those donsa国际传媒檛 get much shorter.

The B.C. musician and music producer has added sa国际传媒榩ublished authorsa国际传媒� to his portfolio, with Kill Love - a book of one-sentence stories.

Fox said the idea for a book of one-sentence stories came by happenstance.

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sa国际传媒淪o I just started writing more to see what I could do. Could I write sad ones, funny ones, dark ones? What can I do with a one-sentence story. I was writing them every night until I had dozens of them. Then I realized there was a theme tying a whole bunch of these together, so I just cleaned it up, grouped them, and made Kill Love.sa国际传媒�

The Vancouver Island-based artistsa国际传媒檚 one-sentence stories are akin to extremely free verse poetry. There is no consistent pattern or word count from one story to the next. Some stories are 20 lines long; others are five words long.

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Corwinisms, if you will.

Fox said some of the stories are autobiographical, while others are pure fiction. There are even stories of invented words, such as sa国际传媒榓mpersymphonialocitysa国际传媒� - the rate of speed at which two or more musical ideas merge. sa国际传媒楩ox said the book is sa国际传媒榥ot really for kids - there is some dark and weird stuff in it, along with some cuss words and stuff. I wanted it to be really unfettered and experimental, but also to make it very personal.sa国际传媒�

As much as anything, Fox figures once he starts doing music gigs again, Kill Love will be a nice addition to his merch table.

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sa国际传媒淪o I started thinking, what am I going to sell, once I go back on tour, because I will do gigs again, and it will be great, because you need your merch money. No one has CD players anymoresa国际传媒� I already supplement my merch tables with hats or shirts, but Isa国际传媒檓 not super into clothing, sosa国际传媒�

sa国际传媒淭hat makes it sound like the impetus of writing this book was an economic one, but it wasnsa国际传媒檛. Thatsa国际传媒檚 just a secondary thing. I was already creating this stuff and I just felt compelled to make the book - the same as writing a song.sa国际传媒�

Kill Love is available at Moonsa国际传媒檚 Records in his hometown of Cumberland, or order online at Foxsa国际传媒檚 website,

terry.farrell@comoxvalleyrecord.com
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