Rogue
Symphonies
Tales
of Lovers, Loners and Runners
First,
I imagine silence. A silence as black as a wet December night, as soft
as the fur behind a cat’s ear, a silence that tastes of water and
smells of the wind. I imagine a silence like this, and only then can I
begin. From
'Watershed by Cathy Whitfield
An
attempted coup d’état fails, but the day of strife is a defining one
for a pair of young lovers. In another country a film-maker stoically
guards his reels as one revolution follows another. In quieter climes, a
butcher faces his violent past, an author battles with an extremely
lively book and a new bakery is watched over by a sapient yeast culture:
And that’s just five of the twenty tales in this international,
multi-genre collection: Lovers, loners and runners forever lead the
action, whether their personal stories are played out in 1st World War Britain or the
21st century Middle East.
 ____________________ ____________________
Contents:
Le
Six Avril - Martin Pevsner
The
Butcher - Kit Habianic
Early
Morning Rain - Brenda Ray
Jamul's
Happy Day - Clive Gilson
Travelling
Hopefully - K S Dearsley
Watershed
- Cathy Whitfield
A
Life At Sea - Marilyn Francis
Sal's
Memorial - Zena Carter
Dormez
Vous - Catherine Chanter
Contract
at Niagara - Malcolm Bray
The
Dating Game - Pam Eaves
Mr
Braithwaite's Secret - Olive Shwenk
The
Love Knot - Douglas Bruton
Who
Knows Why, or Should - Gemma Seltzer
A
View From the Bacon-Slicer - Anne Hijo
A
Very Particular Bird - Tom Conoboy
The
Runners - Geraint Roberts
The
Wreck - William Wood
The
Proof of the Book is in the Eating - Catherine Edmunds
Sourdough
- Guy Ware
A
Review by Tamara Sellman
Published
by
Earlyworks Press ISBN 9780955342961
|