DAN BURKITT
“My job is my life.”
“Masculinity is the central theme in my story: the fragility and vulnerability of the male psyche in a competitive society which thrusts its expectations upon men. I explore this through satire and by initially withholding information in order to build suspense, for example the use of ambiguous terminology such as ‘that uniform’, before the delayed revelation relating to the narrator’s profession, transforming our perception of him from, possibly, a genuinely powerful figure to a man with a mundane job and a distorted view of reality. I leave the ending of my story open so the reader can interpret whether this is a momentary lapse in his façade or perhaps a moment of epiphany.
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