Six Degrees: Short stories revolving around characters from Six Dead Men & Palindrome

When you write a novel, peripheral characters often ask you to tell their side of the story. At times their voice is so loud and persistent in your head that they are hard to ignore. Six Degrees grew out of this and my desire to play with the short story form as well as try my hand at Flash Fiction. In these vignettes several peripheral characters from Six Dead Men and its prequel, Palindrome, tell the reader what they think of the Deed family (mum - Rowena, Dad - Arthur, son - Robert). Sometimes the Deeds get to say their piece too. There are also hints of things to come in Palindrome. So as one of my favourite poets would say: read "wid de whole of yu eye".

Rae Stoltenkamp was born in South Africa and came to England in 1987 to visit family. She liked the weather so much she stayed. After a writing holiday in Greece she had an epiphany and realised she should be writing on a more full time basis. It was probably heat stroke since she hadn’t had sun in a while. She then studied writing at City Lit with the poet Caroline Natzler and is now a writer, blogger and part-time English teacher living in South London. She has a passion for Argentine Tango and Lindy Hop. When not chained to her writing desk and laptop, she can often be seen tripping the light fantastic with her tango friends or laughing her way through Lindy Hop.