Gay, NovelsKenneth WebbMay 24, 2024Quintuple ~ A Short StoryComment

Quintuple ~ A Short Story ~ A Note from the Author

Gay, NovelsKenneth WebbMay 24, 2024Quintuple ~ A Short StoryComment

Quintuple ~ A Short Story ~ A Note from the Author

25 May 2024

It is always good to see one’s work being read.

I have placed this novel onto the Journal Platform because it attracts much attention internationally, the most recent being Lázaro Cárdenas in Mexico ~ always a delight ~ last week, and also on the other side of the world, visits from Perm, Yekaterinburg, Moscow and St Petersburg in Russia. Granted, as regards Russia this might be the same agency ‘checking-up’, thus being the same staffer, and the GPS most close to that person at that moment.

But this happens also in many other countries with this particular novel. Our voice needs to be heard, especially as we see the hint of the inevitable pendulum swing that has a way of turning people from ‘for’ to ‘against’.

I wrote this as a series of poems, three in fact, hence it being published in its printed version in 2011 in the second anthology, Meanderings.

Realising that it was striking a chord, I was able to develop the storyline during my time in Liverpool, the people of that great city giving me much encouragement.

So I think it has earned its place to be in the public gaze.

I published Quintuple ~ A Short Story in my author name, Ian Bradley Marshall. Indeed, up north many know me only by that name, so we always have quite a laugh when they put KTW and IBM together!

Doing a search online last evening for one of my own poems, I was surprised to find a link to a very enjoyable poetry open mic evening in Formby near Liverpool in 2012. It gives a hint of what I got up to in the old days.

Kenneth Webb

Ken Webb is a writer and proofreader. His website, kennwebb.com, showcases his work as a writer, blogger and podcaster, resting on his successive careers as a police officer, progressing to a junior lawyer in succession and trusts as a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives, a retired officer with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, and latterly, for three years, the owner and editor of two lifestyle magazines in Liverpool.

He also just handed over a successful two year chairmanship in Gloucestershire with Cheltenham Regency Probus.

Pandemic aside, he spends his time equally between his city, Liverpool, and the county of his birth, Gloucestershire.

In this fast-paced present age, proof-reading is essential. And this skill also occasionally leads to copy-editing writers’ manuscripts for submission to publishers and also student and post graduate dissertations.