Mercy and Other Stories Rebecca Lloyd s first published collection of sixteen strange stories nine of which are previously unpublished is made up of tales of unease with a sprinkling of the ghostly menacing and fantastica
Rebecca Lloyd s first published collection of sixteen strange stories, nine of which are previously unpublished, is made up of tales of unease with a sprinkling of the ghostly, menacing and fantastical The stories inhabit the fragile space between fantasy and reality, where the landscape is in constant flux and things are not quite as they seem.In Mercy a loving husbandRebecca Lloyd s first published collection of six teen strange stories, nine of which are previously unpublished, is made up of tales of unease with a sprinkling of the ghostly, menacing and fantastical The stories inhabit the fragile space between fantasy and reality, where the landscape is in constant flux and things are not quite as they seem.In Mercy a loving husband finds an un usual method of prolonging his affec tion for his wife, while the inhabitant of a halfway house finds a creative use for internet dating in Salsa Alan runs away from the circus in The Lover , and in The Reunion , eccentric and elderly Isobel and Charles, struggling with the upkeep of their de caying mans ion, chose an entirely new way to face the future In Maynard s Moun tain , the search for a lost lottery ticket involves a traveller family in a literally uphill task.Contents Mercy , The Careless Hour , The Stone , Salsa , The Meat Freezer , Dust , What Comes , Momentum , Lucky Cat , The Bath , The Gathering , Gone to the Deep , Maynard s Mountain , The Lover , All That Follows , The Reunion
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Rebecca Lloyd
For the most part I write short stories, and while many of them were first published in literary journals, in 2014, I had two collections of my stories published at the same time, Mercy with Tartarus Press, which is a beautifully made hardback book, and The View from Endless Street, a paperback published by WiDo.Some of my stories could be described as psychological horror and others as magic realism, and from time to time I write about ghostly things What interests me most is the inventive ways we deal with what life throws at us, and the ability many of us have to slip easily between our invented worlds and the shared world, as if travelling back and forth down a long worn path.