ALEX COBURN DAVIS
I didn’t really know why I was even driving anymore.
In a short story it is impossible to describe whole days or extensive scenes, therefore I employed the techniques of ellipsis and time shift, and set the story within the limiting confines of a car, interrupted by snapshots of the post-apocalyptic world beyond its windows. In ‘A Lonely Coast’, Annie Proulx uses the faux-naïf style, a technique that makes the alarming seem matter of fact; this device seemed appropriate for the context of my story where in a world that has been devastated, roadside corpses would seem almost mundane. The use of delayed revelation is a further technique designed to unsettle the reader.
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