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Author · Storyteller
Rose May
@rosemay
Literary Fiction writer drawn to flawed characters, unexpected consequences and the small details that make imagined worlds feel real.
Behind the stories
About the writer
Rose May is a literary fiction writer interested in how stories work, how readers respond to them and how technology is changing the way writers create and publish.
The interesting part usually begins where the easy answer stops.
Books and story worlds
Stories by Rose May
On the writing desk
Currently creating
First draft
The Quiet Inventory
After her father dies, a Durham copy editor finds a box of unsent letters, half-finished audiobook notes and a list of people he never quite managed to forgive. As she tries to sort his papers for sale, she starts tracing the small omissions that shaped her family’s life. The more she edits his words, the less certain she becomes about what a truthful version of the past would even look like.
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