Uncategorized – R.S. Pinner

About

R.S. Pinner (PhD) is an Associate Professor in Literature and Applied Linguistics, and author of several books, both fiction and non-fiction. This site is dedicated to fiction writing and poetry. I have three books with major publishers, and my creative works have been published in …

Passing Misconception

In a park under the cherry blossoms, an old man is sitting on a bench in the shade of some trees. He looks out across the petals falling like soft pink feathers, and he sees a father with his little daughter sat on his shoulders. …

Bento

Short story by R.S. Pinner, first published in New Writing (2019) I heard the news about Riku Saito and I was upset, but my initial reaction was more like acting than actually feeling. My wife told me about it, at the time I was cooking …

Until the Break of Day: a novel

On the eve of an election in which a fascist government could take power, Dan and Sam have an unborn baby to worry about. A School of Economics dropout and his pregnant girlfriend flee the fascist regime of the newly elected New National Party in …

Not the first, but the others were a long time ago…

With all this new time to think, it’s been hard for me to decide what to focus on. I wanted to make a real push with my creative writing this year, and yet I have so many projects which I started and abandoned, so many …