What is a cigar-tin story?
Take a dessert cigar tin, prime the lid, paint a picture on it, varnish it, then place an accordion booklet with an original story inside.
Cigar-tin stories are intended as tchotchkes: to decorate bookshelves, end tables, mantles, desks, etc. They are one-of-a-kind curiosity items, much like pretty girls.
tchotchke / pronounced chotch-kuh /
(also tsatske)
noun informal
1. a small object that is decorative rather than strictly functional; a trinket.
2. a pretty girl or woman
ORIGIN 1960's, Yiddish
My fiction has appeared in over thirty magazines and journals. My first collection of short stories, called Punishing Ugly Children, was published in Fall 2010 by Killick Press. It was recently short-listed for the ReLit awards.
I have sold over one hundred cigar-tin stories so far – in shops and at shows and online.
You can see more of my work at www.red-handed.blogspot.com
Have any questions?
Contact the shop owner.
