Tag: Post-Apocalyptic
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‘No Shelter’ (Part Four) by Timandra Whitecastle
Read part one here, part two here, and part three here. “You left him?” The midwife wants to know. “You left the aelf when you went ... -
‘No Shelter’ (Part Three) by Timandra Whitecastle
Read part one here and part two here. I tell the midwife: first month I missed my period, I didn’t even realize it. Second month, I wondered about ... -
‘No Shelter’ (Part Two) by Timandra Whitecastle
(Read part one HERE) The midwife tuts. She clicks her tongue, starts rummaging around in her battered black doctor’s bag. I fear it’s going to ... -
‘No Shelter’ (Part One) by Timandra Whitecastle
The midwife is listening to my unborn child’s heartbeat through a stethoscope pressed against my belly. She looks like she’s the seventh angel’s retarded sister, smiling ... -
The Seven by Peter Newman
Seven is a magical number. Indeed, a 2014 survey found that seven is the world’s favourite number. Perhaps that is why the world of film and books has ... -
The Malice by Peter Newman
Peter Newman has followed up his remarkable debut The Vagrant with another exceptional tale: The Malice. In The Vagrant, Newman flouted convention with a present tense story of a protagonist ... -
The Hammer and the Goat by Peter Newman
Covers count; every author knows this. Covers can make you buy books, they pose questions, raise mysteries – draw in the eye and the imagination. It ... -
The Vagrant by Peter Newman
“Actions speak louder than words.” I heard Peter Newman speak at the Grim Gathering II in Bristol, where he gave a short summary of his book: ... -
Blackwing by Ed McDonald
THE GOOD: Tattoos that turn into crows, child-sorcerers that’ll cut you in two (vertically, diagonally, horizontally, they’re not fussy like that), veritable doomsday weaponry, ancient beings that ... -
The Emperor’s Railroad by Guy Haley
You only got an idea of what the Gone Before might have been like from up high. I could see the lines of the streets and ...
