Here There Be Monsters
(spoken by Nimue, scribed by James)
I’m delighted to announce that I have two stories in this anthology of monstrous tales. I don’t know everyone in the collection but I know enough of my fellow authors to be confident that this will be a strange and unusual gathering of tales. Steven C Davies is an author of very dark fiction who will no doubt have drawn all manner of monstrous contributions.
This is the first time I’ve had a story in an anthology alongside something from Jessica Law. With Keith Errington also in the book, that’s three quarters of Jessica Law and the Outlaws. As James mostly writes flash fiction it may be a while before we get all four of us. Life goals.
People familiar with my partner Keith’s more usual writing may be surprised by this one. Normally, he tends towards gentle humour. Especially in his Rostov persona. This tale draws attention to the colonial nature of some gung-ho early sci-fi and is deeply disquieting. Not his usual sort of thing at all.
One of my stories “Interview With” amused me and is more of a comedy horror piece. It may resonate with anyone who would use immortality to get a lot of reading done. My second story “Freak Show” is a much more troubled piece with a lot more rage and pain and a lot to say about the process of being made into a monster by someone else.
As yet, I’m not familiar with other contributions, but live in hope of being able to read them at some point in the future.
