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Skull Fragments
Short Story Collection. Two small-time drug dealers having breakfast in a diner consider killing the cop who stops in for a cup of coffee and kidnapping their waitress. When an old geezer asks an unemployed car salesman to murder his son-in-law to be, the salesman isn’t sure if he’s up for such a radical career change. A young man has to come to terms with the fact that his father is a serial sexual predator. In these and ten other noir tales set mostly in the sun-dappled hills and valleys of Western Kentucky, Tim L. Williams plumbs the swamps that lurk inside the heads and hearts and souls of people just trying to get by. Whether in the quiet towns or along the lonely back roads or on the interstates, the protagonists of Williams’ stories discover getting by is no easy task in a world where your most dangerous enemy is often yourself. With crystal clear sentences, Williams paints the dark side with chilling sympathy. You won’t soon forget these stories.
372 pages, Paperback
First published March 15, 2015
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February 6, 2015
‘My mother had a lot of “boyfriends”, but only two of them tried to killer her.’
New Pulp Press is one of the best publishers of transgressive fiction around and they really have excelled themselves with , SKULL FRAGMENTS: Noir Stories by Tim L. Williams.
At times reminiscent of Donald Ray Pollock’s Knockemstiff or Richard Ford’s Rock Springs, the 14 stories in SKULL FRAGMENTS have an extra noir edge to them, a way of digging into the hearts and minds of their lost and lonely characters..
Every story in SKULL FRAGMENTS is a sharp gem but personal favourites include the opening WHERE THE SUN GOES DOWN, WHERE WILL YOU BE WHEN THE WATERS RISE?, THE LAST WRESTLING BEAR IN KENTUCKY, WHERE YOU FIND YOURSELF and the neo-Gothic closer, TICK.
Chilling, touching, sad, brutal,brilliant and beautifully written. Highly recommended.
New Pulp Press is one of the best publishers of transgressive fiction around and they really have excelled themselves with , SKULL FRAGMENTS: Noir Stories by Tim L. Williams.
At times reminiscent of Donald Ray Pollock’s Knockemstiff or Richard Ford’s Rock Springs, the 14 stories in SKULL FRAGMENTS have an extra noir edge to them, a way of digging into the hearts and minds of their lost and lonely characters..
Every story in SKULL FRAGMENTS is a sharp gem but personal favourites include the opening WHERE THE SUN GOES DOWN, WHERE WILL YOU BE WHEN THE WATERS RISE?, THE LAST WRESTLING BEAR IN KENTUCKY, WHERE YOU FIND YOURSELF and the neo-Gothic closer, TICK.
Chilling, touching, sad, brutal,brilliant and beautifully written. Highly recommended.
June 21, 2015
Wow. An unsettling group of edgy noir short stories, excellently written. These are dark tales of those desperate people occupying the fringe of society that live on the outskirts of our daily lives. The stories are set in a depressed area of Kentucky, adding to the bleakness of their lives and their futures.
The author Tim L. Williams is a talented story-teller. A gripping style with no wasted words or sentences and the ability to relate nightmarish yet believable episodes in the sorry lives of people we know must exist out there but hopefully will never meet.
If you are into noir or dark adventures, check this book out. The stories will stay with you.
The author Tim L. Williams is a talented story-teller. A gripping style with no wasted words or sentences and the ability to relate nightmarish yet believable episodes in the sorry lives of people we know must exist out there but hopefully will never meet.
If you are into noir or dark adventures, check this book out. The stories will stay with you.
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