5 Vile & Ignoble Tales

Preface

Hello there! I'm Carl and I'm glad you chose to read my book. You can read this preface after you finish reading the book or whenever you feel like it! As you probably read in the synopsis, this book is a collection of short stories that are idiotic and miserable. Idiotic because they don't make sense nor teach any moral lesson; miserable because (most of them) they are extensions of tragedies, which gave the title: vile and ignoble, a contradiction to the fact that I am publishing them.

Actually, I'm a little afraid that my stories are tedious or boring to read, but I am also afraid to ask my friends to read them because it certainly takes up time. So I tend to be the one who writes, who has ideas, who reads, who rereads and who revises my stories.

My stories are, at this point, mostly short stories — although there is another genre/style here and there — and my inspirations for writing and imagining scenarios are diverse. Among them are the stories I read by Franz Kafka, Machado de Assis' short stories, a little bit of Dostoyevsky's writing style and many other stories that support me to be creative.

The short stories in this book are a bit unconventional and inconvenient, many making "no sense at all," as a friend of mine said when reading "Equine Hiring"; still, I found them fun to write and maybe a bit cool to read; you decide! I started writing these stories in early September and finished them in mid-October. The order in which I finished writing them was as follows: Mayara (Sept.), The Lethargy (Sept.), A Mere Clock (Sept. written in two days), The Grotesque There Is (Oct. written in two days) and Animalia (Oct.).

So, that's it! Good luck passing through all the non-sense and dumb stories that take place in the following chapters. See you!