About Pardon These Details
Pardon These Details is a place to enjoy new, independent fiction writing, with a brand new story published every Thursday. For just £1 a month, subscribers will have access to a constantly growing archive of exclusive fiction, focussed on the tiny, enormous, beautiful, terrible details of everyday life.
About The Author
Pardon These Details is written, edited, and published by Gemini, a tall writer from a rainy, coastal town. She graduated from university with an English degree, where she also bought two lamps, fell in love, and ate lots of chips. Gemini has a cat called Boo and a peace-lily which needs no introduction.
Why Pardon These Details?
I've been paying attention to detail since 2011, when my incredibly thorough primary school report on wolves tested the limits of the printer and my teacher's patience.
Some details, such as the various constituent layers of a wolf's fur, are of little interest to anyone beyond specialists. Others - the small ridges on yellow card crenellations around the board where our reports where displayed - are impossibly personal.
Details, the facts of perception, are too numerous to ever fully describe. Through colours, sounds, shades of light, scents and shapes and movements, the details of the world reveal its limitless change and variety.
The stories of Pardon These Details are short and vivid, written to reclaim your attention from a world full of all-too-general claims. Linger in their huge smallness. Enjoy their specificity. Take time over words that hold their little stake in the world.
" Accordingly, he took the paper and
lowered his spectacles, measured the space at his command, reached his pen and
examined it, dipped it in the
ink and examined it again,
then pushed the paper a
little way from him
lifted up his
spectacles
again, showed
a deepened depression
in the outer angle of his bushy
eyebrows, which gave his face a peculiar
mildness (pardon these details for once—
you would have learned to love them
if you had known Caleb Garth) "
Middlemarch, George Eliot
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