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Blood Wish
I wish I may.
Eight-year-old Evan Murphy has just lost his father to cancer. His grief-stricken mother has uprooted him from the only life he’s ever known to
move him to the small mountain town where she grew up. All he knows of the dark forest surrounding his new home are the fanciful stories from his
mother’s youth about a hidden well that grants any wish.
I wish I might.
The...more
Eight-year-old Evan Murphy has just lost his father to cancer. His grief-stricken mother has uprooted him from the only life he’s ever known to
move him to the small mountain town where she grew up. All he knows of the dark forest surrounding his new home are the fanciful stories from his
mother’s youth about a hidden well that grants any wish.
I wish I might.
The...more
Chapbook, 99 pages
Published
2007
by Delirium Books
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An eight-year old boy and his pharmaceutically induced painter mother live in the woods. Just about when I was about to give up on this story for not enough conflicts (and the worn dark forest setting), the boy starts seeing all these ghostly children with severed arms and mouths wired shut.
Yikes.
Rereading the story description before writing this review I realized that gives away a bit too much about what happens in this short and surprising novella. It's almost like the author lulls the reade...more
Yikes.
Rereading the story description before writing this review I realized that gives away a bit too much about what happens in this short and surprising novella. It's almost like the author lulls the reade...more
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Michael McBride is the author of more than twenty novels and novellas. His short fiction has been featured in Cemetery Dance, Dark Wisdom, Dark Discoveries, and various anthologies. He lives in Westminster, Colorado with his wife and children.
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