Wednesday, December 04, 2024
Second Hand Hands
These are mostly brief tales, strange, offbeat, imaginative, inventive and playful fictions featuring ghosts, werewolves, giants, pirates, mutants, spirits, witches, elephants, sentient mirrors and a parade of other odd characters.
I delight in language as well as concepts, in form as well as content, in comedy, tragedy, horror, mystery and paradox. I hope the reader will feel equal delight, or at least some delight, when reading this book, which I believe has a unified sense of timeless weirdness.
It is a collection of concise absurdist fiction (and I still maintain, and always will, that there is a significant difference between absurdism and surrealism).
A complete list of all the stories in the volume can be found on my Aardvark Caesar blog, where I keep a public record of all my books as they appear.
If I had to choose a favourite story among the fifty, I might select 'Candles' or 'So Far Untitled' or 'The Editor'. But there is no requirement for me to choose.
# posted by Rhys Hughes @ 4:34 PM 
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