The Soul's Waiting Room (2021)

The Soul's Waiting Room is a short story I wrote in 2021 and submitted it to The Inkwell, and it ended up being published in their edition Liminality. The prompts included: "lockdown, waiting rooms, being between time zones, corridors, dead ends, swimming pools at night, ruins, haunted houses, childhood bedrooms, hotel rooms, deserted motorways, voids, the internet, snapchat etiquette.... etc".

From that I started thinking about waiting rooms. But I didn't want my story to be about a doctor's waiting room, or a dentist - something that immediately springs to mind when you hear those words. So I thought about souls, and something that has always intrigued me is where souls go when they leave their current life and enter a new one. I've always believed in reincarnation and the soul as this transcendent being. So I combined the two. I wanted to write about the soul leaving someone's body and entering a new one, and what that stage of limbo in-between might be.

After a few minor edits with the society's copy-editor, we settled on the piece and sent it for print.

Here it is:

I'm quite proud of this story, and it was the first time I had had something I'd written published for people to read.