Collected shorts poetic, dark, eerie, and amazing. See them (with one of mine) at VSS365 Anthology Volume One available on… Read more A VSS365 TWEET ANTHOLOGY
Author: Susan Iwanisziw
WARTIME SPARROWS
A post World War II mystery about American servicemen in Great Britain and the suspicious death of a local girl. … Read more WARTIME SPARROWS
Putting on the Wellies: Home Research
Classic: Roget’s Thesaurus. Online: powerthesaurus.org Dictionaries: The Oxford English Dictionary (OED), especially useful for establishing historical word use Webster’s Encyclopedic… Read more Putting on the Wellies: Home Research
FIVE STAR Novels of Missing Persons
Jonathan Letham: THE FERAL DETECTIVE. A gripping journey, in the company of Phoebe and the feral Detective Charles Heist, into… Read more FIVE STAR Novels of Missing Persons
TWEETS: BIGGISH SCORES
No need for sculling across her home sky, a god floats on her back. Perfectly white with no threat of… Read more TWEETS: BIGGISH SCORES
STRAY THOUGHTS
She hears the house first. It cries like a hungry bairn. It belongs to Quality but seems familiar. Inquisitive like… Read more STRAY THOUGHTS
THE MURDER BOUTIQUE
In the Journal of Speculative Fiction, Kyanite Press (Issue 5/Vol. 1/May-June 2019) pages 64-75. In a world of universal surveillance,… Read more THE MURDER BOUTIQUE
FIVE STAR INDIE BOOKS
Elliott Downing: The Keys of the Kingdom. Self-Published. A compelling short fiction dealing with the public exploitation of private grief… Read more FIVE STAR INDIE BOOKS
TWEETS FROM THE HEYDAY: 2019
Beginning: Attendants satiate her lust & dance to her tune, but they all die badly. Middle: Bereft, she scours the… Read more TWEETS FROM THE HEYDAY: 2019
FIVE STAR: STRUCTURAL REVIEW OF LOU BERNEY’S NOVEMBER ROAD *****
GENRE: Thriller; 1960s-era picaresque novel. THEME: At one level, Karma; at a deeper level, Free Will as a realization that… Read more FIVE STAR: STRUCTURAL REVIEW OF LOU BERNEY’S NOVEMBER ROAD *****