"My father proposed to my mother at gunpoint when she was nineteen, and knowing that she was already pregnant with a dead man's child, she accepted." Thus begins this riveting story of a woman's quest to understand her recently deceased mother, a glamorous, cruel narcissist who left her only child a
Black Horse and Other Strange Stories
β Scribed by Wyckoff, Jason A.
- Publisher
- Tartarus Press
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 177 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
This new collection of sixteen tales uncovers the strangeness within everyday America, the fable in the familiar. βThe Highwall Horrorβ sees an office worker discover the portal to an alien cathedral in a cubicle wall; in βPanoramaβ an artistβs agent examines his clientβs deserted masterpiece; a young man follows a forgotten song to the haunted town that spawned it in βThe Bells, Then the Birdsβ; a young mother escapes her wastrel husband only to become lost in a perilous swell of freedom in βThe Mauve Blotβ; and in βBlack Horseβ an inherited steed brings uneasiness and worse to its new owner.
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