DOVELION AT SMALL PRESS TRAFFIC REPORT!

 

I'm grateful to Small Press Traffic and editor Syd Staiti for featuring an excerpt from DOVELION. This EXCERPT moves me to discuss two evident elements relating to form and structure. DOVELION contains about 330 sections, all beginning with "Once upon a time"--this reflects its preconceived constraint to begin with those words and see what happens (obviously, DOVELION happened ). The second element is the non-chronological order of the mentioned dates. This doesn't disrupt linear narrative/time so much as evidences what I call "Kapwa-time" whereby time compresses past, present & future into a Now. 

May this excerpt that accounts for 1.7% of the novel's text move some of you to read my first novel. Book info at https://eileenrtabios.com/fiction/dovelion-a-fairy-tale-for-our-times/