TOM LYONS
“She’d be waiting for him.”
In ‘A Clove of Garlic’, I have used the supermarket queue as the medium for the central character’s thoughts after the apparent murder of his wife, Susan. I used a combination of reliable narrator interposed with snatches of Martin’s feelings as a method of narration; as the story progresses, I increase the proportion of interior monologues. I implemented the technique of objective correlative - presenting somebody’s material environment to illustrate what they are thinking - when describing Susan’s lists as “prim”.This offers the reader a glimpse of her structured lifestyle which will result in her demise.
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