PAULINE MASUREL discusses how Ludmilla Petrushevskaya’s collection of Scary Fairy Tales swerves ‘between the realist-expected and the magical-surreal – often involving equally powerful forces such as disease, alcohol, vandalism, war and mental illness.’
STORY: Read ‘The Best Place in Town’ by award-winning author Stuart Evers. ‘David Falmer couldn’t pinpoint the exact moment he lost control of John’s stag party; but he knew it was long before the topic of conversation had turned to hookers…’
In her essay on Bio-Punk, KIRSTY WALTERS talks of the haunting use of science and ethics in this wonderful short story collection: ‘…it opened my mind to a whole new way of thinking…’
Writer SARAH GUPPY talks to us about the Co-Operative of Writers in Edinburgh and the successes of their first self-published collection of stories and poetry, Edinburgh Shorts.
We recommend The Inland Sea, a wonderfully wintry short story from K. J. Orr: ‘a truly epic tale of adventure, extreme winter weather and the bonds of brotherhood…’
