The story for April is titled “Keeping up with the Sullivans”. Now I know what you might be thinking, did you just steal that name from Keeping up with the Kardashians? And the answer is no, I took the idea from the original saying “Keeping up with the Joneses”, which has to do with trying to keep up with appearances in the wider social setting. Oh shit I just realised that the Kardashian’s show gets its name from that saying too, that’s far out man.

I wrote this one quite a while back, what inspired it was a friend who shared a story with me about this time she had to babysit a bunch of kids. I can’t remember how we got onto the topic but I think we were discussing whether we wanted kids ourselves. I stated that I wanted four children, while she wanted none; I asked why, and her reason was her story about babysitting horrible rampaging kids.

Now I thought about it for a little while, and then came to the conclusion that what my friend had told me could work as the basis for a great story (great in my head at least). So, I laboured away writing the whole thing up, and turns out it wasn’t even that hard to write, it was one of the easier ones. 

Without getting too intellectual or high concept, I wanted to explore the effects of out of control kids on those around them and what seems like behaviour issues is more a copping mechanism. Or something like that, you know what I mean. 

Have a read and tell me what you think,

It will be coming out on Amazon and Kobo in the next couple of days, so be on the lookout.