Surrendered Stories with photographs is a slim volume of four well-written and clever short stories embracing comedy, drama, tragedy, and suspense. Cocteau’s Ransom is a humorous tale about an ill-conceived dognapping. Nights at the Vestige is a poignant story about loneliness underscored by the...
I received a paperback review copy of this book from the publisher. That has not influenced my feedback. I was intrigued by the description of this book, by the author’s previous work, and by the fact that this volume of four of her stories includes twenty-four of her own black and white photographs...
(this review originally appeared at Outsider Writers Collective)Kristin Fouquet writes with a sense of poignancy, a defiance of the trite and the clever, a mode that practically forced me to fall in love with her writing back in the Twenty Stories days. With her second book, Rampart & Toulouse: a No...
(this review originally appeared at Outsider Writers Collective)At page one, “The Dead Redhead,” I was curious.At page ten, “Traveling Lightheaded,” I was intrigued.At page twenty-seven, “The Stranger’s Dilemma,” I fell in love.Twenty Stories (Rank Stranger Press) beautifully enhances my admittedly ...
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