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[[Category:Short Stories|*]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Lying Under All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Opening up new ways of thinking about the Apple Treeshape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CDZRGT1M|title=Super Short Stories: Flash Fiction|author=Alice MunroMark C Wallfisch
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|summary=Munro packs an extraordinary amount into ''Got a minute to be amused, entertained, or challenged?''''These 100 stories are super short story. None is more than 300 words. You can read one in a flash.''''Some of them are quite long for short stories, and they funny. Some are not the sorts of stories that might suit reading on your daily commute; they demand more attention than thatpoignant. Her observations of human behaviour All are acute, and the most innocuous of them will set you thinking a great dealshort. Most of the stories warrant a pause for thought and need a little time for absorption of detail.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099593777</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Something Like HappyRachel Harrison|authortitle=John BurnsideBad Dolls|rating=4.5
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|summary=How do you pick It's been some time since I've read any horror. I had a name couple of misspent teen years reading Stephen King, borrowing the books from a boy I fancied at school and scaring myself half silly with them to the point that I couldn't shut my bedroom curtains at night for a fear of the vampires outside! Don't worry - this short story collection? isn't like that! It seems to me the doesn''...t have those jump scares, and other storiesI didn'' add-on t have to read it during daylight hours only! But it is like picking a favourite childcreepy, a promotion of one portion and I found most of that feeling came from the content above fact that these are stories about women, living normal lives, and that at least in part, the rest. [[:Category:John Burnside|John Burnside]] has got horrors arises from very normal situations such as a breakup, trying a title story herenew dieting app, but such is the mood of the book that he seems going to have nailed the matter, a hen party and picked the most apposite name. ''Something Like Happy'' could in a way be the title for practically every piece herecoping with grief.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099575590</amazonuk>1803363932
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn= B0CCCVRSGX|title=Brief Loves That Live ForeverStories 2|author=Andrei MakineRichard F Walker|rating=4.5
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|summary=Our unnamed narrator This is inspired to think back through his life on the girls Richard F Walker's second volume of short stories. There are thirteen in all and women he has been in love with, partly because I took something from each of them. There isn't a time spent with an associate – a time marked by a seemingly most unremarkable encounter with a further woman – whom he deemed had never been lovedsingle one that doesn't deserve to be among the others or brings down the overall quality. The associate, you seeIt can be tricky to review short stories without giving too much away, had spent half his adult life in Soviet camps for political instruction – our narrator himself was an orphan in the 1960sso I' Soviet Unionll just pick two to talk about and I think they give a general flavour. This snappy volume takes us through episodes in several lives at different points during and since the second half of communist rule – and finally explains the import of that unremarkable encounter…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780870493</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1739593901
|title=22 Ideas About The Future
|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
|rating=5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=''Our future will be more complex than we expected. Instead of flying cars, we got night-vision killer drones and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to track grandma.''
I've got a couple of confessions to make. I'm not keen on short stories as I find it easy to read a few stories and then forget to return to the book. There's got to be a very compelling hook to keep me engaged. Then there's science fiction: far too often it's the technology which takes centre stage along with the world-building. It's human beings who fascinate me: the technology and the world scape are purely incidental. So, what did I think of a book of twenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, I loved it. }}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth HaynesB09XZMCDVF|title=Promises to KeepStories: A Short Story13 tantalising tales|author=Richard F Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=Jo ''A news vendor is haunted by crying out the headlines in the death middle of the night; a wheelchair user loses touch with reality when he tries walking around in his imagination; a teenage asylum seeker whilst stickler for correct grammar goes back in police custody and she only hangs on time to her fragile sanity by running. Whilst she's out in correct an iconic quote; a volunteer teacher proves the woods (where she'd been warned that she ''really'' shouldn't go) she discovered a young boy living rough and she knew that she had ideal person to do everything have around in her power to keep him safe. There were complications. Her partner was DS Sam Hollands who had a direct involvement with asylum seekers - and lawless village; the new boy living rough in on the woods was the younger brother of the dead teenager. Sam wanted to get her relationship pub football team is very useful with Jo back onto an even keelhis feet, but one night she returned from work to find a stranger in her house.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00I9GXP2M</amazonuk>}}and awfully familiar…''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1737030942|title=Further Encounters of Sherlock HolmesBag O'Goodies|author=George Mann (Editor)Jolly Walker Bittick
|rating=4
|genre=Short StoriesAnthologies|summary=Hot on the heels of Sometimes, you deserve a treat and mine was Jolly Walker Bittick's ''Bag O'Goodies''. I first encountered his writing about a year ago, when I read his [[Encounters of Sherlock Holmes Cape Henry House by George Mann (Editor)Jolly Walker Bittick|Encounters of Sherlock HolmesCape Henry House]] comes another collection , a rollicking tale of brandwhat happens when five young men find a base for their partying. Right now, I didn't want a full-new tales written by some length novel, so I turned to this anthology of the brightest creative minds from the genres of science fiction verse and crimeshort stories. In this anthology, Holmes Bittick's writing has matured - and Watson are pitched headlong into twelve different mysterious scenarios and invited to unravel secrets and unmask villains as only they know howso have his characters. Well.. During their adventures they come face to face with a mountain monster, take a murderous boat trip, meet Moriarty’s siblings and even indulge in a little space travel. The game is afootmost of them!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178116004X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Rose (writer of short stories)1529418100|title=Posthumous StoriesBruno's Challenge and Other Dordogne Tales|author=Martin Walker|rating=4.5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=These sixteen I'm not usually a fan of short stories have one thing in common: lives, - I find it all too easy to put the book down between stories and plenty of them. We jump from the earthy banter of a road crew building speed humps forget to an interview prepick it up again -broadcast but I am a fan of a classical piece where Martin Walker's [[Martin Walker's Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries in Chronological Order|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so the interviewer isntemptation to read ''Bruno's Challenge'' was hard to resist and I'm rather glad that I didn't getting the kind of answers for which he hopeseven try. On the way we meet For those new to the least-mentioned Beatleseries, visit a world where people are paid there's an excellent introduction that will tell you all you need to read for the many that donknow about who't s who and the man trying background to remember his father through art to name but a fewwhy Bruno is in St Denis. For good measure there are a couple of Kafka-esque experiments that also work as ripping good yarns.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907773576</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08NF79QXT|title=Doctor Who: 11 Doctors, 11 StoriesCherry Blossom Boutique|author=Eoin Colfer, Michael Scott and othersBrooke Adams|rating=53|genre=Confident ReadersWomen's Fiction|summary=It's basic knowledge that Doctor Who has changed a lot since first being seen fifty years ago – and I don't mean the title character, but the nature of the programme. It Thirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has gone from black and whitehad her shop, and cheaply produced, and declared disposable, to being an essential part of the BBCCherry Blossom Boutique, fullfor just six months when she's nominated for -gloss digital, and accessed in all manner of wayswins - the Retail Best Newcomer Award. So with She's delighted and the celebratory programme still ringing in our ears, and leaving two people pressing a red button she's brought with her to see a programme about three Doctors, er, pressing a red button, we turn to other aspects of the birthday bonanzaevent couldn't be more pleased. Such as this bookSonja, which has also mutated in its much shorter lifespanher mother, is an ex-model and Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got her looks from being a loose collection of eleven short e. Jessica's thirty-book novellas written by the blazing lights of YA writingfour and Liberty's best friend: they've known each other since university and Liberty adores Jessica's husband, to a huge Charles and brilliant paperback collecting everything within their four-year-old daughter, Ava. Life would be perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for one set of coversthing: she misses having a man in her life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141348941</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08KKQ85FN|title=Of Lions and Unicorns: A Lifetime of Tales from the Master StorytellerBut Never For Lunch|author=Michael MorpurgoSandra Aragona
|rating=4
|genre=Confident ReadersShort Stories|summary=''Of Lions and Unicorns'' is If a woman approaching the menopause can be likened to a Rottweiler in lipstick, an Ambassador nearing retirement resembles a collection pampered peacock about to be released into the company of short stories carrion crows or, more to the point, about to discover the real world of bus timetables and extracts from Morpurgo’s most popular books. The book is split into five sections, which focus on recurring themes in paying his writingown gas bills.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007395353</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08CHJLNBS|title=The Science of HerselfCapturing Emilia|author=Karen Joy FowlerBrooke Adams
|rating=3
|genre=Short StoriesWomen's Fiction|summary=IHe've said it befores Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and I'll say it again. The most fun when facing a new author, especially a big name one, is to come through the undergroundpartner at Wickham Jones, tackling the smaller worksMayfair letting agents. She's Emilia, the quirkier outputtwenty-nine, librarian and archivist in the less representative sections of her or his oeuvreheritage library next door. And for those who have or haven't Emilia has read ''[[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Jane Austen Book ClubSecret]] but she's moved on from new age books like that, which leave you dependent on someone else's philosophies, there to something a little deeper. Charles is plenty of potential for that with the rest more of a [[The Case of the Imaginary Detective Personal by Karen Joy FowlerLee Child|Karen Joy FowlerJack Reacher]]man himself, but, for her output includes almost as many selections of short stories as it does very successful novelsabove all, and whathe's more they carry the science fictional bannershocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardian''. A long time ago there was a teenage me very happy to be reading They''Lord re obviously not at all compatible, so why can Charles not get this woman out of the Flieshis mind? She's not his usual type at all: it' and writing an essay about how sci-fi it was, and I do relish the mainstream author entering a genre, or the inverse of thats obvious to his friends. But boyAnd given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, I normally come away why does she feel drawn to him? The relationship's obviously a lot happier than I did here.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1604868252</amazonuk>non-starter, isn't it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate MosseMarie O'Regan and Paul Kane (editors)|title=The Mistletoe Bride and Other Haunting Cursed: An Anthology of Dark Fairy Tales
|rating=4.5
|genre=Short StoriesFantasy|summary=This book Curses. They're there throughout tales of 14 short stories faery and a short play is based other fantastical folk – people being cursed to do this, or not to be able to do that. Children can be cursed, as can princesses on the ideaverge of hauntingmarrying, and older people too. Sometimes the haunting It seems in a way there's no escaping it. Which is why the ghostly kind and sometimessomething psychologically deeper and more primal. All the theme of this book of short stories drift is such a standout – we may well think we know all there is tous from different erasknow about this accursed character, that demonised place, both past and recent, but all have one thing incommon: they centre on a troubled that other bewitched person. For instance we meet Gaston, aFrench child who witnesses an odd event on the beach just after losing hisparents. In the inevitably touching but beautiful ''Red Letter Day'' wetravel to a French castle with a woman who has an appointment with the past.If you want something completely different, there's ''The Duet'We' which drawsus into a fascinating dialogue and then hits us with a stingd be very wrong.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409148041</amazonuk>1789091500
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Stibbe_Xmas|title=The Time Traveller's AlmanacAn Almost Perfect Christmas|author=Anne VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeerNina Stibbe|rating=4.5|genre=AnthologiesHumour|summary=From HChristmas – the time of traditional trauma.G Wells You only have to ''Doctor Who'', there is something think about the turkey for that – once upon a good time-travel story that has it was leaving it sat on the power downstairs loo to ignite defrost overnight, and if that failed the imagination in a way unique to the genrehair-dryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best bet. Perhaps Nowadays it is due 's all having to the fact make sure it's suitably free-range and organic – but not too organic that when dealing you can go and visit it, and get too friendly with the subject it to want to eat it. Christmas, though, is of course also a time travel, literally of great boons. It''anything is possible''. Wells cash in hand for a lot of plump people who can hire red suits and beards, almost anything...apart from going back 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 write out in time long-hand as a child, and killing your Grandfatheras for the makers of Meltis Newberry Fruits – well, which we know would cause an almighty paradox did they even try and probably destroy sell them any other time of the universe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781853908</amazonuk>year?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Diana Wells0954899520|title=Odes and Prose for Older WomenA Winter Book|author=Tove Jansson|rating=45|genre=Short StoriesLiterary Fiction|summary=I amTove Jansson's worldwide fame lasts on the Moomin books, written in the 1940s and later becoming television characters of coursethe simplicity, not an older woman naivety and nether is Diana Wells. We were born in the same year and we are what is best described as sheer 'upper middle agedgoodness'that would later produce flowerpot men or teletubbies. Simple drawings, but - perhaps in anticipation simple stories, simple goodness. What is often forgotten outside of what her native Finland is to come - Diana has collected together her writings on that she was a serious writer…that she wrote for adults as well as children…and that she had a feeling for the subject natural world and I read through them in two sittings (the break was enforced) and I laughed and cried, simple life that not only informed those child-like trolls but went far beyond any fantasy of how the wry smile of recognition never left my face from beginning to endworld might be. There are about eighty five short stories and odes - with none more than a few pages long - written, we are told, from observation, experience or imagination and I can only conclude that Wells has led a very rich life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780356838</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1911115847|title=Sad MonstersNights of the Creaking Bed|author=Frank LesserToni Kan
|rating=4
|genre=HumourLiterary Fiction|summary=If you thought you had it bad… Here is the chupacabra writing to the newspapers for better press – notices that don't universally mention his goat-sucking habits before his chess-playing, dancing or debating record. Here is a banshee struggling with high school life, knowing the end 'Nights of everyone that comes across her path. Here is King Kong, being defended in court by a lawyer with a revelation to the jury about his bipolarity and how wrong it was to get his hopes up with a Broadway show in a strange city. Did you honestly think Godzilla enjoyed the way his life ended up?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0285642324</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Dear Life|author=Alice Munro|rating=4.5|genre=Short Stories|summary=Alice Munro has made an art form of short story writing. ''Dear LifeCreaking Bed'' is a collection of truly beautiful short stories, perfectly crafted in a way that leaves no wanting feeling, as is often an issue with short storiesby Toni Kan. Each The series of the 14 stories contained within tell of the lives and lusts of an assortment of characters living in and around Lagos, Nigeria. Nigeria, in this collection , is just that; a story in imbued with its very own rightheart of darkness. There is no getting caught up Danger stalks the shadows and lost in style and literary flare, but people are killed for nothing more than a cool prose, wrong look. Kan writes with a calmness of tone vitality and good strong passion that allows these cynical storiesto achieve a glimmer of hope.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099578638</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529014484|title=The Complete Short Stories: Volume TwoExhalation |author=Roald DahlTed Chiang
|rating=5
|genre=Short StoriesScience Fiction|summary=Having only recently read Over the first volume of this collection of all of Roald Dahl’s past twenty-eight years, Ted Chiang has published fifteen science fiction short stories I couldn’t help but think , these magnificent stories have won twenty-seven major science fiction awards so if you are a science fiction fan it is likely that you have already come across some of the phrase work by Ted Chiang. If you haven''too much of a good thing'' although I have never really agreed with the phrase (I could happily gorge on chocolate or whisky for days without the slightest regret) I am still pleased that t then take this book provides yet more evidence of the inaccuracy of the expressionopportunity to do so now. With stories as diverse as a butler getting revenge on his employer and a baby being brought up on royal jelly by a fanatical bee lover, these are tales of horror, humour, adventure, love and all out weirdnessTrust me; your imagination will be grateful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405910119</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1794467440|title=Tales from the Dead of Night: Thirteen Classic Ghost StoriesWatchwords |author=Cecily Gayford (editor)Philip Neal|rating=4.5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=This satisfying collection of classic ghost short stories covers all kinds has a provenance at least as beguiling as the provenance of chilling tales. There are physical ghosts, emotional ghosts, ghosts that are never seen but merely sensed, and even the odd entity antique watches that just seems ghostly, even though inspired it might be an ordinary everyday thing - but still makes you feel as if you’ve, well, seen a ghost. Each story is preceded with some information on the author. The stories are from are from several different periods and the settings range from winter nights in England to sultry summers in India. This combines to make for an excellent overview of all kinds of spooky sagas.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781250944</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529006031|title=The Complete Short Stories: Volume OneReturn to Wonderland|author=Roald DahlVarious Authors
|rating=4.5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=Roald Dahl’s name on In following a young girl called Alice down the rabbit hole a few years ago, when the first book has for me always meant I she was in for a fun [[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (150th Anniversary Edition) by Lewis Carroll and imaginative readAnthony Browne|hit 150 years of age]], I found that I didn't really find too much favour with it. His children’s books are The wacky-for-the pinnacle -sake-of children’s literature -it did not gel, and combine fantastic ideas with wordplay and some of I don't remember loving it more as a child. But I would suggest I am the most amusing characters and situationsperfect audience for this book. The I had every chance to enjoy these short stories for that come at the core from a younger audience tangent, that show the benefits of the oblique glance. I've always managed preferred coming to thrill an author's output through their least obvious, allegedly throw-away pieces, and entertain both adult and child and reading them aloud is it's 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 joyhunch, for obvious reasons). In short I believe Roald Dahl For another thing, there was a true master every reason to expect some kind of storytelling. I have however greatness here – with Carroll much loved by millions, surely pieces written with that love in mind could only actually read one of his adult books before reading this collection of short stories.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405910100</amazonuk>provide for success after success?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1846974658|title=The Dinner Club and Other StoriesLong Path To Wisdom|author=Rob KeeleyJan-Philipp Sendker
|rating=4
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=This brilliant and varied collection of short stories is On my travels around the product of world, I have a current academic interest tendency to end up in cross-cultural translation. Francisco Guillen Serés any bookshop that is a Catalan professor of Art History from Aragon. A Russophile, he has travelled widely to collect stories from those writing during the past hundred years of Russian history. These have been translated into Catalan and then into selling English. These unusual and delightful stories-language books, some twenty one of them written by five writers read fluently and engagingly. They form an informative tapestry of Soviet and postwhile I buy as many second-Soviet lifehand escapist tales as the next person, moving back in time with what I'm really looking for is the 'local' – the oldercookbook maybe, earlier writers like Bergchenko, who died in the siege of Stalingradmaps definitely, at but above all: the endfolk tales. Ranging over mythic and symbolic tales If I ever get to realistic portrayals of personal relationships; love trysts in St PetersburgBurma, ferocious bears in the deep heart of the Taiga I won't need to the perils of becoming lost in continuous orbit in space. All aspects are impressively recountedhunt, I can read before I go.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085705158X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B077969HN8|title=Best British Short Stories 2013Alternative Medicine|author=Nicholas Royle (editor)Laura Solomon|rating=4.5
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|summary=Expect to read some quality work Laura Solomon's publisher describes the short stories in ''Best British Short Stories 2013Alternative Medicine'', sourced from as ''black comedy with a number twist of short story magazines; surrealism''. I'Grantam rather glad that I didn', t see this until 'Shadows and Tall Trees', after'Unthology' and I'The Edinburgh Reviewd finished reading as I' are just some of the publications in which these pieces were to be seen first. If asked to identify m not normally a red thread between the components fan of Nicholas Royle’s anthologyeither, but I would say that in each short story, everything is left 've come to simmer under two conclusions about the book: what the surfacepublisher says is correct - and I really enjoyed it. There The comedy is a frustration brought about by not ''too'' black and the lack of clarity in every short story, which to me surrealism is gentle and perhaps best described as a reflection twist or flick of just how unclear reality when you were least expecting it. Your comfort zones are going to be invaded in the most seismic of situations may be to any individual involvednicest possible way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907773479</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=This Close9386897504|author=Jessica Francis Kane|rating=5|genre=Short Stories|summarytitle='This Close' is a sensitively written collection of short stories exploring the fragile nature Tales of the bonds connecting friends, neighbours Love and family. As the title suggests, most of the stories contain pivotal moments where a missed opportunity, fleeting as it may be, can propel a person along a path culminating in regret or loss. Each story is poignantly written and perceptively observed. As a reader, I was drawn in and became so emotionally involved with the characters that it was often impossible to close the book until I knew how each story ended.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1555976360</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Behind the FacadeDisability|author=Dennis FriedmanLaura Solomon
|rating=4
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=We have all, at one time or another, wished I've always believed that we had the ability to read minds. Imagine how interesting less-able writers produce longer books: it would be takes a great deal of skill and talent to peer beyond write a short story which holds the external appearance reader and to understand the various thought processes lurking beneath the surfacekeeps them coming back for more. Psychiatrist Dennis Friedman gives the reader the opportunity to do just that with his collection There are far too many collections of short stories which are all too easy to put down and forget after you'Beyond the Facadeve read a couple of pieces. I've recently read a couple of novellas by Laura Solomon - [[Marsha's Deal by Laura Solomon|Marsha's Deal]] and [[Hell's Unveiling by Laura Solomon|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0720615070</amazonuk>Hell's Unveiling]] and enjoyed them, so I was intrigued to see what she could do with an even shorter form.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Margo Lanagan1986586898|title=YellowcakeGoing To The Last: Short Stories About Horse Racing|author=K D Knight
|rating=4.5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=We should always make time for short stories. Especially if they are written by Margo Lanagan. In ''Yellowcake''the opening story, a traveller boy uses three items to reunite an old man whose wife has deserted him visits Sandown with little money but comes away with cash in his memoriespocket - and his wife. In ''A boy Grey Day'' an owner struggles with a crippled foot watches the problem of whether or not to run his townfolk butcher a beautiful creature washed up horse in their harbourthe Gold Cup when the ground is against him. My favourite was ''The Story of H'', the story of Foinavon. Rapunzel gets H is depicted as a makeover kind horse who only wanted to please people. After changing hands on various occasions he came to the yard of John Kempton. H (or Foinavon) was entered in which things turn out differentlythe Grand National and considered a no-hoper. We find out how In one of the Ferryman most dramatic runnings of the Dead became race, a pile-up occurred at the Ferrywoman23rd fence. And more Foinavon, who had been many lengths adrift, cleared the fence and galloped to the line, winning the race at odds of 100/1.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849921113</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Melvin Burgess9386897296|title=Krispy WhispersHell's Unveiling|author=Laura Solomon|rating=43.5
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|summary=A little while ago I really enjoyed [[Marsha's Deal by Laura Solomon|Marsha's Deal]] and I was delighted by the opportunity to read the sequel, ''Hell's Unveiling''A woman stops you . It's probably not much of a spoiler to say that Marsha bested the devil in ''Marsha's Deal'', but the road devil is not one to take defeat lying down. He's out to wage war on Planet Earth and gazes fearfully into the pramparticularly on Marsha (who's thought of as a 'goody two shoes' in Hell). "Your babies are not human Although a strong person," she says'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 she runs off, of course, there are all the other children who are not only targeted but - worst of all - subverted to the devil's evil ends. He''s out to prey on their fears and weaknesses and as with many foster children, their self-esteem is very fragile. This is no small-scale operation, either - the devil has set up a training complex on earth, complete with an elevator to Hell.}}