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Family and Other Ailments: Crime Stories Close to Home
Paperback
HorrorMystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Massetti Pub
Published: Aug 3 2023
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Blood ties. The family we've been given, the friends we make, the loves we keep, and those we lost. The twenty-six stories in Family and Other Ailments teeter on the brink, hover at the periphery or even the possibility of crime. Under a soft light and at an angle, they're all love stories.
The collection opens with Spy Head, a tale of friendship after a crushing trauma. In Texas Two-Step, brotherhood leads to a wicked double-cross. Razorbills shows a young woman seeking freedom from the prison-like caring of her sibling. Black and Tan slips into domestic horror, as does Mutti, with a hint of the fantastic. Hour of the Bat and Bag Limit are deep woods Texas noir, while A Head for Numbers and No Recoil go west, to the stark unforgiving beauty of the desert.
M.E. Proctor draws characters with a tender touch. She catches them at an inflexion point in their lives, a moment of choice. We feel what they feel, see what they see, and their voices linger for a long time in our memory.
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