http://www.route-online.com/authors/sam-duda.html Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:35:22 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.route-online.com/authors/sam-duda.html/comment-page-1#comment-207 Stories behind the Stories « Routepublishing's Blog Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:36:00 +0000 http://www.route-online.com/?p=2089#comment-207 [...] Sam Duda on The Parrot I had just left a job, a girlfriend and a city, and gone to live in Cornwall. I scratched around for a while before finding a job on a beach. The only other worker was a Czech boy, Milan. I was anxious, self-aware and obsessive. He was carefree, hedonistic and unflappable. I drank with him all summer, trying to parrot him – not just to impress, but because it seemed an easier, more enjoyable way to live. The following year I moved to Newcastle and found myself slightly more carefree, hedonistic and unflappable. That’s when I wrote the story. [...] [...] Sam Duda on The Parrot I had just left a job, a girlfriend and a city, and gone to live in Cornwall. I scratched around for a while before finding a job on a beach. The only other worker was a Czech boy, Milan. I was anxious, self-aware and obsessive. He was carefree, hedonistic and unflappable. I drank with him all summer, trying to parrot him – not just to impress, but because it seemed an easier, more enjoyable way to live. The following year I moved to Newcastle and found myself slightly more carefree, hedonistic and unflappable. That’s when I wrote the story. [...]

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