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"Two days a week, I go to Dundee University as a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund. It’s such a grand title that I’ve been agitating to have it replaced with the title ‘Pooh Fellow’, since it is all paid for by Winnie the Pooh. The Royal Literary Fund has been in existence since the late 18th century, helping out impecunious authors; Coleridge was an early beneficiary. More recently, the Fund inherited and then sold to Disney the rights to A.A. Milne’s work...."

Marmots
Clio Gray

Clio Gray on writing her short story collection, Types of Everlasting Rest.

"A marmot in a jar. Who wouldn’t want one? I would, if only I could get my hands on such a thing. Instead, I have a box of bones I’ve picked up off the beach to scare the children with at Halloween, and the skeleton of a flat-fish which is oddly round and rather beautiful, with huge sub-orbital lobes which give it the appearance of having blind eye-balls on top its bony head.

"I like such curios and curiosities, both in physical form and in language..."

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