WILL REID
“I didn’t want to be here.”
‘Rain on the Velux’ is a story preoccupied with the insatiable hunger for relationships in modern culture. Inspired in part by Murakami’s ‘The Second Bakery Attack’, which also deals with notions of society and feelings of unbearable hunger for stimulation and love, ‘Rain on the Velux’ explores the ability of people to deal with changes to the balance of their carefully curated existence and how to react if something were to upset this. I took the decision to invert the pattern of narration and write the story in reverse chronological order.This generated interesting tension points within the piece by beginning with the dull image of passing out on a bed and building the narration back up to a delayed revelation.
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