Monday, July 17, 2017

THE DEAD AVIATRIX AND THE STRATEMEYER SYNDICATE



THE DEAD AVIATRIX
Eight Short Stories
BY
Carmel Bird
TO BE PUBLISHED AS AN EBOOK
NOVEMBER 2017

1 – The Dead Aviatrix and the Stratemeyer Syndicate  
2 – The Whirligigge of Time Brings in His Revenges  
3 – Love Letter to Lola
4 – The Matter of the Mosque
5 – Cold Case
6 – Surrogate
7 – Cactus
8 – The Tale of the Last Unicorn

PRAISE FOR THE COLLECTION
‘Carmel Bird’s short stories are ingenious, each a delicious fictional Venus fly trap that encloses you in its wonder or horror, or both. There is little terrain of the human condition that her stories don’t touch – a child’s cold case murder and a triggered memory that may have solved it, the sinister banality of suburban life and all its hidden vestibules, beauty and ugliness, creation and the future of the world, small towns and their dark undercur­rents, and of course love. Bird’s stories fizz and tingle with originality and freshness, and carry an alluring humour that can turn malevolent and deadly in the blink of an eye. Hands down, Carmel Bird is to my mind the best living short story writer in the country.’  MATTHEW CONDON   

‘Dark, intriguing, yet always witty and delightful.’  ANDY GRIFFITHS


Published by Spineless Wonders – NOVEMBER 2017


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