Compost.

R. M. Clarke · Compost, a short story by RM Clarke

Compost is a short story I wrote for the Irish Writers Centre and Arts Council Northern Ireland XBorders:Accord writing project in 2018. It was later published by The Irish Times in May 2018.

It is a mournfully sensual piece that is teetering dangerously close to nature writing, on that crumbling line I often straddle between writing literary fiction and a full blown Gardener's World episode transcription. Basically, if you like flowers and failed romance, this is for you.

I am slowly turning my stories and books into audio form; this is the first.

If you're more of a purist however, and have never quite got into the audiobook thing, the published story can be read here.

And if you're down for this audio thing, there's more to come soon.