My Review (5 stars out of 5) After years of struggling with addiction, Sydney finds herself and her young son in a nice house, with a decent job and a loving partner. But when she unexpectedly encounters a burglar, the sequence of events before her escape to a neighbour’s house, become blurred. While she’s recovering…
Category: Surreal
‘Edge of the Known Bus Line’ by James R. Gapinski
Edge of the Known Bus Line A woman’s normal bus journey transports her into a grotesque shantytown where the inhabitants mug newcomers for food, trinkets and anything else they can find. With little to eat but dead rats and human flesh, the stranger’s work experience on a deli counter soon finds her cast in the…
‘Escape from Samsara’ by Nicky Blue
Escape from Samsara When Barry (a time-travelling ninja and part-time gardener), sets off on an epic adventure in a bid to unleash his inner ninja and find his missing father, he enters a surreal world where anything can and does happen. With a cast of characters including a talking hedge, a metal-head mother and ghostly…
Books, Crime, Fantasy, Horror, murder, mystery, Paranormal, Supernatural, Surreal, Thriller, Writing
‘Sleep Savannah Sleep’ by Alistair Cross
Sleep Savannah Sleep Recently-widowed Jason Crandall moves his family to the sleepy town of Shadow Springs, hoping it’ll give them all a better life. However, starting a new business as a massage therapist gets off to a bad start when Jason is confronted with man-eater and local socialite Savannah Sturgess, prompting her hulk of a…
‘The Magic Vodka Wardrobe’ by Sheila Patel
The Magic Vodka Wardrobe Sisters Shaz and Trace work in the family corner shop by day but spend their nights glugging vodka and disco-dancing with Aunt Sheila in a magical wardrobe. With characters including Tattoo Tony and Dammit Janet, this is a surreal story that could rival any TV soap-opera, apart from the lack of…
Colin Garrow 