🎙️ Ben Daggers

Read Ben’s story, Alette in lane six is a self-righteous bitch, on Foofaraw now!

How often do you go bowling?

My forty-something wrists, unfortunately, don’t enjoy hurling heavy stuff down the lane as much as they used to, so only once a year or so.

How often does it end in disappointment?

Every. Single. Time.

What’s the highest score you’ve ever gotten bowling?

I’ve barely scraped three digits. Probably 110ish.

Do you think our protagonist ever ends up winning, or are they doomed to perpetual losing?

I’d like to think that at some point their luck changes (though that would be bad news for the fairy orphans and flightless veterans.)

What would happen if a fairy was caught cheating and influencing a game as our fairy does here?

I imagine that cheating is a serious business in the world of lane fairies. Three match ban, minimum.

Do you think Alette plays fair? Or have they been breaking the rules to turn things in their favor the entire time?

That’s a very good question. I’d always imagined her to be irritatingly pious, but the more I think about it, the more I think she might have been secretly breaking the rules all this time.

What’s a great short story you’ve read recently?

The Girl Who Found Things by Henry Slesar is a wonderfully dark, classic story of the occult which I found in a short story collection edited by Isaac Asimov.

What book are you reading right now?

Tales of the Occult edited by Asimov (see above.)

Do you have anything else you'd like to share?

My talented friend Jaime Gill has just had a great little story published in New Flash Fiction: https://newflashfiction.com/appeasement/

Thanks to Ben for helping us start the new year on the right foot!