A passionate Baroque orchestra in seven instrumental forms and six movements.
Rekha Valliappan
Rekha Valliappan is an award-winning multi-genre writer of short stories, poetry, flash fiction, novelas and creative nonfiction. Her speculative fiction features widely in various journals and anthologies including StepAway Magazine’s ‘Imaginarium’ Fantasy Issue, Disquiet Arts Literary Magazine, Theme of Absence, Litro Magazine, Saturday Evening Post, Zoetic Press, Teleport Magazine, The Punch Magazine, Queen Mov’s Teahouse, and elsewhere. She holds a MA in English Literature from Madras University and a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) from the University of London and has earned nominations for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net.
Short Interview
1. Write a 10-word sentence that embodies how you understand sensory overload.
A passionate Baroque orchestra in seven instrumental forms and six movements.
2. What scent/s would your piece be?
Scent to me implies smell which borders on taste, since the two senses share a common border so to speak. My “Vision Field” at work is supercharged with layers of fragrance, in part sweetest as rahat lokum gel gets when dates are crushed and mixed with granules of brown sugar, in part fruity tangy as bergamot orange can be when the fruit is ripening between yellow and green, and in part heavily spiced like the burgundy Merinda crunch in my story, born of an imaginary Merlot-Sangria red concoction mix.
3. What did you intend your audience to feel when reading your piece?
I would like my reading audience to be aware, because with feeling awareness in the broader sense comes the sense of feeling alive in the heightened sense. When this happens all five senses are at work, launched, journeying through the one open sense, a redoubled feeling of fever and fervor, which in my readers viewpoint may be exacted through the sense of sight, or of smell, as each may be. Above all the deeper the reader plunged or felt into my story’s premise, the stronger my anticipation would be, of the release of self into my 2 MCs ultra colorful experiences.
4. Describe your favorite type of light.
I would describe my favorite type of light as a luminous sago sky tussar-coated in pale filament sheen, wild with saffron sunlight, dewy with misty moonlight, striated with sparkling starlight, what other kind of light is there?
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