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[[Category:Short Stories|*]]__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=David Eagleman|title=Sum: Tales from the Afterlives|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=For some reason I find myself unable to start this review. So I'll mention this book starts with the end, and see where we go from there. Of course, that's the key – this book does just that – starts with the end of our human life here on Earth (or wherever you happen to be reading this) and posits forty possibilities of what happens thereafter, in the hereafter. It's not so much 'Five People You Meet in Heaven' as 'Forty Heavens you Might Meet People In'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847674283</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=James Lasdun|title=It's Beginning To Hurt|rating=4.5|genre=Short Stories|summary=It's Beginning to Hurt is a collection of sixteen short stories, all bound together by the theme of hurt in various forms. It is James Lasdun's third collection of short stories and, chances are, if you are a fan of the short story then you will have read something by him before.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099512327</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Andrew Porter|title=The Theory of Light and Matter|rating=4|genre=Short Stories|summary=Both the book cover and its title are enticing, quirky, eye!-catching. Personally, I'm a fan of most things American including American fiction, so I couldn't wait to start reading. I was not disappointed. Porter introduces us to characters, many of whom would probably be described as deeply flawed. He shares the darker side of modern-day American life with the reader Remove - which is far from the bright lights of glitzy New York or the sun-drenched beaches of California. You could say that this is all about real life. To underline his point, Porter's characters are mostly local folks (to use a favourite American word) shuffling through life as best they can.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>022408982X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James KelmanAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=If it is Your Life|rating=3|genre=Short Stories|summary=All Tomorrow''If This Is Your Life'' is not so much a collection of short stories as a collection of pieces of creative writing. Kelman doesn't really do 'stories'. In nineteen pieces of writing of varying length from just a single page to more lengthy pieces, such as the story s Futures: Fictions that gives its title to this collection, Kelman writes (mostly) about people on the edge of society. He addresses issues such as class, politics, gender, age and ill health.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241142423</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewDisrupt|author=Christopher Golden Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (EditorEditors)|title=Zombie: An Anthology of the Undead
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|genre=HorrorScience Fiction|summary=Anyone who enjoys a good horror story and likes zombie films will love this book, which is a collection of nineteen short stories by a variety of authors. I have to admit that I have only heard of one ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the authors before - [[:Category:Mike Carey|Mike Carey]], who writes the [[The Naming shape of the Beasts (Felix Castor) by Mike Carey|Felix Castor]] novels - but I am not an avid reader of the genre and don't doubt that the authors will be known things to readers more familiar with itcome. Despite this unfamiliarity, I thoroughly enjoyed most of the stories, with just one or two seemingly not up to scratch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749952539</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephanie TillotsonB0CDZRGT1M|title=Cut on the BiasSuper Short Stories: Flash Fiction|author=Mark C Wallfisch
|rating=4.5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=If ''Cut on the BiasGot a minute to be amused, entertained, or challenged?'' ''These 100 stories are super short. None is more than 300 words. You can read one in your local bookshop, you will surely be won over by the feisty covera flash.''''Some are funny. Some are poignant. Stories about women and their clothes All are about identity, so what better start to a set of short stories than a fashion statement cover featuring the bags in which said clothes arrive home?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906784132</amazonuk>}}.''
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|rating=4
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=It's been some time since I chose this book because 've read any horror. I had a couple of its superb title – misspent teen years reading Stephen King, borrowing the last books from a boy I fancied at school and best memoir in a scaring myself half silly with them to the point that I couldn't shut my bedroom curtains at night for fear of the vampires outside! Don't worry - this short story collection of sixteen stories. These Humberside isn't like that! It doesn't have those jump scares, and Lincolnshire stories I didn't have a background beat to read it during daylight hours only! But it is creepy, and I found most of Fifties' music that sets them firmly in an excitingfeeling came from the fact that these are stories about women, disturbing time for young people everywhereliving normal lives, not and that at least for in part, the author and his friendshorrors arises from very normal situations such as a breakup, as old ways of living made way for trying a new along the East Coast of Englanddieting app, going to a hen party and a coping with grief.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1904529445</amazonuk>1803363932
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clive Cussler (editor) B0CCCVRSGX|title=Thriller Stories 2: Stories You Just Can't Put Down|author=Richard F Walker
|rating=4
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|summary=If you enjoy thrillers or This is Richard F Walker's second volume of short stories then you might find this book a treat. If you enjoy There are thirteen in all and I took something from each of them both then it. There isn's t a treasure trove. ''Thriller 2: Stories You Just Cansingle one that doesn't Put Down'' is edited by best-selling author [[:Category:Clive Cussler|Clive Cussler]] (although none of his work is included) and includes work by some authors who are deserve to be among the others or brings down the top of their gameoverall quality. There are twenty three It can be tricky to review short stories in allwithout giving too much away, each about twenty pages long and theyso I're perfect for those moments when you ll just want pick two to dip into something short talk about and satisfyingI think they give a general flavour.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0778303209</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Will Eisner 1739593901|title=Minor Miracles22 Ideas About The Future|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summaryauthor=This short story collection starts with two appetisers before getting on with two main courses, but as with the best meals even the smallest dishes can have the most depth. We start with the entire life cycle - rise, fall, rise, fall - of a hobo feeding pigeons in the park. Obviously he hasn't been doing that all his years - he's been keeping his dignity intact, with a huge amount of chutzpah Benjamin Greenaway and more. Next, a smart Alec defeats the older kids on the stoop with a bit of canny street wisdom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393328147</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Agnes Owens |title=The Complete NovellasStephen Oram (Editors)
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|genre=Literary Science Fiction|summary=Who is Agnes Owens? A Scottish author who portrays working class life from the nineteen forties and fifties''Our future will be more complex than we expected. Now an octogenarian, apparently Agnes Owens started writing at the age Instead of 58. Here are five previously published stories collected into one new editionflying cars, a companion volume we got night-vision killer drones and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to her short stories, published in 2008track grandma. I don't think you'll be disappointed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846971373</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Aleksandar Hemon B09XZMCDVF|title=Love and ObstaclesStories: 13 tantalising tales|author=Richard F Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=We start ''A news vendor is crying out the headlines in the middle of the night; a wheelchair user loses touch with the young narrator away from home, and reality when he tries walking around in Africa, due to his diplomat father. He's left behind home, imagination; a potential girlfriend, and more, but finds company with stickler for correct grammar goes back in time to correct an older, chancer character and his junkie girlfriend, and their pot, drinks and 70s rock. Closer iconic quote; a volunteer teacher proves the ideal person to his roots, but still have around in a young man abroad, lawless village; the second story sees him travelling across his homeland new boy on an errand - to deliver payment for the biggest chest freezer pub football team is very useful with his father could find. But poems, losing his virginity, keeping his moneyfeet, and various other fantasies might just put awfully familiar…'' This collection of thirteen short stories by Richard F Walker has a cooler on lot to offer the eclectic reader. Tying them together is the idea that unusual taskremarkable and strange, even miraculous, things can happen to ordinary people.And that ordinary doesn't mean boring or uninteresting.Form and tone varies so this little treasury of short fiction is never boring and you're never quite sure what's coming next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330464434</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charles Stross 1737030942|title=WirelessBag O'Goodies|author=Jolly Walker Bittick
|rating=4
|genre=Short StoriesAnthologies|summary=In his introductionSometimes, Stross explains that one of the reasons he likes writing shorts stories is because they are the ideal format in which to focus on you deserve a particular concept of the future treat and play around with it. It doesnmine was Jolly Walker Bittick't matter so much if the idea doesns 't ultimately work because neither the reader nor the author has invested in it the way they would in a novel. 'Bag O'WirelessGoodies'' then. I first encountered his writing about a year ago, when I read his [[Cape Henry House by Jolly Walker Bittick|Cape Henry House]], is something a rollicking tale of an experimentwhat happens when five young men find a base for their partying. Stross employs many different styles Right now, tackles many different subjects I didn't want a full-length novel, so I turned to this anthology of verse and is very skilful at creating moodshort stories. His stories are a strange blend of the technical Bittick's writing has matured - and the archaicso have his characters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497711</amazonuk> Well... most of them!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Oxfam1529418100|title=Ox-Bruno's Challenge and Other Dordogne Tales: Air|author=Martin Walker|rating=3.54
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=Four books I'm not usually a fan of short stories each taking (rather loosely on occasions) as - I find it all too easy to put the book down between stories and forget to pick it up again - but I am a theme one fan of the elements: Martin Walker's [[Ox-Tales: Earth by OxfamMartin Walker's Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries in Chronological Order|EarthBruno Courreges Mysteries]], [[Ox-Tales: Fire by Oxfam|Fire]], [[Ox-Tales: Water by Oxfam|Water]], and this book so the temptation to read ''Bruno's Challenge'Air'was hard to resist and I', sold in aid of Oxfam but not about Oxfamm rather glad that I didn's workt even try. The writers, many household names, have given their work for free and at least 50p from the sale of each For those new book goes to Oxfam. Thatthe series, there's not entirely the point though, is it? You want an excellent introduction that will tell you all you need to know if about who's who and the book background to why Bruno is worth buyingin St Denis.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682614</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Oxfam B08NF79QXT|title=Ox-Tales: EarthCherry Blossom Boutique|author=Brooke Adams|rating=3.5|genre=Short StoriesWomen's Fiction|summary=Published in aid of Oxfam workThirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has had her shop, the Cherry Blossom Boutique, Oxfor just six months when she's nominated for -Tales comprise of four books featuring original stories donated and wins - the Retail Best Newcomer Award. She's delighted and the two people she's brought with her to the project by a variety of writersevent couldn't be more pleased. The framework for the books Sonja, her mother, is provided by the four elements of the classical philosophyan ex-model and Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got her looks from. Each collection starts with Vikram SethJessica's elemental poem thirty-four and ends with a short article highlighting OxfamLiberty's work in a key area ([[Ox-Talesbest friend: Fire by Oxfam|fire]] – conflict they've known each other since university and warLiberty adores Jessica's husband, [[OxCharles and their four-Talesyear-old daughter, Ava. Life would be perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for one thing: Water by Oxfam|water]] – sanitation and clean water, earth – agriculture and air – climate change)she misses having a man in her life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682584</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Irvine Welsh B08KKQ85FN|title=Reheated CabbageBut Never For Lunch|author=Sandra Aragona
|rating=4
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=Irvine Welsh's choice 'If a woman approaching the menopause can be likened to a Rottweiler in lipstick, an Ambassador nearing retirement resembles a pampered peacock about to be released into the company of title for this collection of short stories may serve carrion crows or, more to warn some unwary readers of its unpalatable nature. To the uninitiatedpoint, its stream about to discover the real world of unrestrained swearingbus timetables and paying his own gas bills.'' You don't get many better opening sentences than that, drug taking, sex do you? We first met His Excellency and The Ambassador's Wife in [[Sorting the Priorities: Ambassadress and Beagle Survive Diplomacy by Sandra Aragona|Sorting the Priorities]] and casual violence could we learned what it was like to be moved around countries like accompanying baggage by the Italian Government but the time has come as a shockfor HE to retires and for Sandra Aragona to become The Wife of Former Ambassador... They have left The Career and settled in Rome. His fans though Well 'settled' rather overstates the situation and their dog, Beagle, will has no doubt lap it upintention of slowing down any time soon, despite being sixteen and deaf.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224080555</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Oxfam B08CHJLNBS|title=Ox-Tales: FireCapturing Emilia|author=Brooke Adams|rating=43|genre=Short StoriesWomen's Fiction|summary=Published in aid of Oxfam workHe's Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and a partner at Wickham Jones, the Mayfair letting agents. She's Emilia, Oxtwenty-Tales comprise of four nine, librarian and archivist in the heritage library next door. Emilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but she's moved on from new age books featuring original stories donated like that, which leave you dependent on someone else's philosophies, to the project by something a variety of writerslittle deeper. The framework for the books Charles is provided more of a [[Personal by the four elements Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but, above all, he's shocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardian''. They're obviously not at all compatible, so why can Charles not get this woman out of the classical philosophyhis mind? She's not his usual type at all: it's obvious to his friends. Each collection starts with Vikram Seth And given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's elemental poem and ends with a short article highlighting Oxfamsuperficiality, why does she feel drawn to him? The relationship's work in obviously a key area (fire – conflict and warnon-starter, water – sanitation and clean water, earth – agriculture and air – climate change).|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682592</amazonuk>isn't it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mick JacksonMarie O'Regan and Paul Kane (editors)|title=Bears Cursed: An Anthology of EnglandDark Fairy Tales|rating=34.5|genre=Short StoriesFantasy|summary=As you knowCurses. They're there throughout tales of faery and other fantastical folk – people being cursed to do this, England has had a chequered history when it comes or not to be able to her bearsdo that. From the days when we only knew them Children can be cursed, as horrors making bumping noises - among many others - in can princesses on the night, we have learnt moreverge of marrying, and used them moreolder people too. It seems in a way there's no escaping it. Therefore we have Which is why the theme of this short little book, detailing some of the more remarkable instances of Anglo-bear relationsshort stories is such a standout – we may well think we know all there is to know about this accursed character, from the days of bear-baitingthat demonised place, to them being shot at when they escaped the circus, to when they were employed in subaquatic labour in the days before SCUBA gear.and that other bewitched person.We'd be very wrong.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571242405</amazonuk>1789091500
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul R Spiring (Editor)Stibbe_Xmas|title=Aside Arthur Conan Doyle: Twenty Original Tales By Bertram Fletcher RobinsonAn Almost Perfect Christmas|author=Nina Stibbe
|rating=4.5
|genre=Short StoriesHumour|summary=The shortlived Bertram Fletcher Robinson is sadly little more than Christmas – the time of traditional trauma. You only have to think about the turkey for that – once upon a footnote in British literaturetime it was leaving it sat on the downstairs loo to defrost overnight, and if that failed the hair-dryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best bet. His fame rests largely on Nowadays it's all having contributed tomake sure it's suitably free-range and organic – but not too organic that you can go and visit it, and helped get too friendly with it to inspirewant to eat it. Christmas, though, is of course also a time of great boons. It's cash in hand for a couple lot of Sherlock Holmes stories – plump people who can hire red suits andbeards, if it was always a godsend for postmen with all the thank-you letters to aunties you saw twice a decade that your parents made you believe write out in long-hand as a child, and as for the conspiracy theoristsmakers of Meltis Newberry Fruits – well, having been bumped off by Conan Doyle for threatening to claim authorship did they even try and sell them any other time of one the year?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0954899520|title=A Winter Book|author=Tove Jansson|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Tove Jansson's worldwide fame lasts on the Moomin books, written in the 1940s and later becoming television characters of them the simplicity, naivety and denounce Doyle sheer 'goodness' that would later produce flowerpot men or teletubbies. Simple drawings, simple stories, simple goodness. What is often forgotten outside of her native Finland is that she was a serious writer…that she wrote for adults as well as children…and that she had a fraud. (Don't go there)feeling for the natural world and the simple life that not only informed those child-like trolls but went far beyond any fantasy of how the world might be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312527</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, Arthur Conan Doyle 1911115847|title=Graphic Classics, Volume 17: Science Fiction ClassicsNights of the Creaking Bed|author=Toni Kan
|rating=4
|genre=Graphic NovelsLiterary Fiction|summary=So, an introduction''Nights of the Creaking Bed'' is a collection of short stories by Toni Kan. The Graphic Classics collection is a series whereby of stories tell of the best lives and lusts of an assortment of characters living in genre fiction, from sources both highly likely and remarkably unexpectedaround Lagos, is collected and dressed up for us in graphic novel formNigeria. This seventeenth editionNigeria, a belated best-of sci-fi volumein this collection, is their first foray into full colour, imbued with its very own heart of darkness. Danger stalks the shadows and is headlined by people are killed for nothing more than a version of The War of the Worldswrong look. The supporting material ranges from Kan writes with a one-page strip vitality and passion that allows these cynical stories to thirty-page storiesachieve a glimmer of hope.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0978791975</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Edgar Allen Poe, Various, Dan Whitehead (Editor) 1529014484|title=Eye Classics: Nevermore - A Graphic Novel Anthology of Edgar Allan Poe's Short StoriesExhalation |author=Ted Chiang|rating=45|genre=Graphic Novels Science Fiction|summary=So, if I were to mention someone who was born 200 Over the past twenty-eight years ago this season, and who changed the world with their writingTed Chiang has published fifteen science fiction short stories, who would these magnificent stories have won twenty-seven major science fiction awards so if you think of first? Charles Darwin, probably. But those of are a slightly different bent might just science fiction fan it is likely that you have mentioned someone else - someone at already come across some of the forefront of all things arcane, horrific and thrilling when it comes to fictionwork by Ted Chiang. Someone who lost his birth and foster mother both If you haven't then take this opportunity to tuberculosis before he was ever twentydo so now. Someone who had most unusual circumstances surrounding his death, to best Agatha Christie vanishing for a while, and most of the detectives in the fiction he helped inspire. Someone called Edgar Allan PoeTrust me; your imagination will be grateful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955285682</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mary-Ann Constantine1794467440|title=The BreathingWatchwords |author=Philip Neal
|rating=4
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=Mary-Ann Constantine's book is a bit like a piece of embroidery: painstakingly slow, sewn with different threads, but the result is a beautiful picture by an accomplished hand. It is a book This satisfying collection of short stories, very different and quite ambiguous, describing has a provenance at least as beguiling as the lives provenance of people - and an elephant - of a certain location (or a few) in Walesthe antique watches that inspired it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0954088182</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jay McInerney1529006031|title=The Last Bachelor Return to Wonderland|author=Various Authors
|rating=4.5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=In following a young girl called Alice down the rabbit hole a few years ago, when the first book she was in [[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (150th Anniversary Edition) by Lewis Carroll and Anthony Browne|hit 150 years of age]], I found that I enjoyed didn't really find too much favour with it. The wacky-for-the-sake-of-it did not gel, and I don't remember loving it more as a child. But I would suggest I am the perfect audience for this book. I had every chance to enjoy these short stories by Jay McInerney as if they were that come at the core from a box tangent, that show the benefits of expensive, dark chocolates. Some centres were nut hard, while the rich ganache in others left a bittersweet aftertasteoblique glance. The seven deadly sins provided distinctive tastes of American I've always preferred coming to an author's output through their least obvious, allegedly throw-away pieces, and it'successs the same with franchises – I'd more likely go for Bree Tanner's short novella than the whole Twilight saga (although that remains just a hunch, as I nibbled my way through twelve sophisticated storiesfor obvious reasons). Mmm.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>074759984X</amazonuk> For another thing, there was every reason to expect some kind of greatness here – with Carroll much loved by millions, surely pieces written with that love in mind could only provide for success after success?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lee Child (Editor)1846974658|title=Killer YearThe Long Path To Wisdom|author=Jan-Philipp Sendker
|rating=4
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=This collection of seventeen short stories in On my travels around the crime genre is by a group of newworld, young American writers who I have all been mentored by more established writers such as Lee Child, Joe R Lansdale and Ken Bruen. Although it is a little uneven in quality it does represent an effort tendency to promote the work of younger writers end up in a world where it can be hard to make a breakany bookshop that is selling English-language books, and while I buy as many second-through into mainstream publishing. The short story hand escapist tales as the next person, what I'm really looking for is a specialised medium and the crime genre short story has two prejudices 'local' – the cookbook maybe, the maps definitely, but above all: the folk tales. If I ever get to fight - if you donBurma, I won't read short stories you are even less likely need to read short stories of a particular genre. But whereas mainstream fiction might have its diehard factionshunt, I feel the crime aficionado may well be less uptight and crime novel lovers might can read this collection in the hope of finding the next Harlan Coben or Laura Lippmanbefore I go.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>077830275X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tania HershmanB077969HN8|title=The White RoadAlternative Medicine|author=Laura Solomon|rating=4.5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=A female café owner situated Laura Solomon's publisher describes the short stories in a very strange place breaks the mundane routine ''Alternative Medicine'' as ''black comedy with a very strange acttwist of surrealism''. A female loses sight I'm rather glad that I didn't see this until ''after'' I'd finished reading as I'm not normally a fan of her lifeeither, but I's goals due ve come to having a husband two conclusions about the book: what the publisher says is correct - and I really enjoyed it. The comedy is not ''too'' black and children, the surrealism is gentle and finds perhaps best described as a strange way twist or flick of reconnecting with her interestsreality when you were least expecting it. And females on first dates do strange things – Your comfort zones are going to levers be invaded in zero-G, and with potterythe nicest possible way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844714756</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joyce Carol Oates9386897504|title=The Museum Tales of Doctor MosesLove and Disability|author=Laura Solomon|rating=4.5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=In I've always believed that less-able writers produce longer books: it takes a great deal of skill and talent to write a one-sentence rush, we get an entire short story, starring various joggers, that proves above all else that words can killwhich holds the reader and keeps them coming back for more. It's a moral bluntly There are far too many collections of short stories which are all too easy to put, down and as an opener to the volume puts us instantly on forget after you've read a nervous edgecouple of pieces. We might not be in for the happiest I've recently reada couple of novellas by Laura Solomon - [[Marsha's Deal by Laura Solomon|Marsha's Deal]] and [[Hell's Unveiling by Laura Solomon|Hell's Unveiling]] and enjoyed them, we think, before turning so I was intrigued to the second story, which is called Suicide Watchsee what she could do with an even shorter form.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847245595</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gardner Dozois (Editor), Jack Dann (Editor)1986586898|title=Dark AlchemyGoing To The Last: Magical Tales from Masters of Modern FantasyShort Stories About Horse Racing|author=K D Knight
|rating=4.5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=I'm always In the opening story, a man whose wife has deserted him visits Sandown with little money but comes away with cash in two minds about short story collectionshis pocket - and his wife. On In ''A Grey Day'' an owner struggles with the one hand it's a bit problem of a risk – there could be one whether or two really good stories and a load not to run his horse in the Gold Cup when the ground is against him. My favourite was ''The Story of rubbish. ButH'', the great thing about them story of Foinavon. H is they can introduce you depicted as a kind horse who only wanted to writers you might never have read otherwiseplease people. While you probably wouldn't be prepared After changing hands on various occasions he came to invest time the yard of John Kempton. H (or Foinavon) was entered in the Grand National and money into considered a book you aren't sure you'll likeno-hoper. In one of the most dramatic runnings of the race, spending half an hour or so reading a short story won't leave you feeling too robbed if you don't enjoy itpile-up occurred at the 23rd fence.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747589542< Foinavon, who had been many lengths adrift, cleared the fence and galloped to the line, winning the race at odds of 100/amazonuk>1.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tobias Wolff9386897296|title=Our Story BeginsHell's Unveiling|author=Laura Solomon|rating=43.5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=Tobias WolffA little while ago I really enjoyed [[Marsha's short stories offer few easy solutionsDeal by Laura Solomon|Marsha's Deal]] and I was delighted by the opportunity to read the sequel, ''Hell's Unveiling''. It's probably not much of a spoiler to say that Marsha bested the devil in ''Marsha's Deal'', but the devil is not one to take defeat lying down. He's out to wage war on Planet Earth and particularly on Marsha (who's thought of as a 'goody two shoes' in Hell). His troubled characters face choices they Although a strong person, she's vulnerable where her foster children are concerned. Daniel is framed for a crime he didn't commit and sent to juvenile detention and refused permission to return to live with Marsha. Then, of course, there are all the other children who are illnot only targeted but -equipped worst of all - subverted to makethe devil's evil ends. You do not go He's out to Wolff for a satisfyingprey on their fears and weaknesses and as with many foster children, tidy taletheir self-esteem is very fragile. This is no small-scale operation, neatly wrappedeither - the devil has set up a training complex on earth, or for complete with an entertaining twistelevator to Hell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747597278</amazonuk>
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