Axel Forrester

Axel Forrester has a MSc in Creative Writing from the University of Edinburgh and an MFA in Fine Arts from California State University Long Beach. Her novel THREE STEPS OF THE SUN was recently shortlisted for the First Novel Prize (The Literary Studio) 2024, published in Embark Literary Magazine (2023), and was longlisted for the Bath Novel Award (2023). SWAN DIARIES was a finalist in the James Jones First Novel Fellowship Contest, in the USA in 2021, and was longlisted for the Exeter Novel Prize in 2020. She is both an American and a British citizen, living near Hastings, in the UK.

Vivian Maier Framed

Chapter 1
Words are my enemy. Spoken. Written. It doesn’t matter. They’re out to get you. Birth certificates, applications, references, diplomas, licenses, interviews, gossip, whispers, family stories, newspapers articles, books, magazines, all of it, all of it, is just waiting to do you in. Words are a trap, a snare. They will catch you, crush you, cripple you. They push you around from the moment you’re born.
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