Impossible Spaces poetry books
Hannah Kate is a poet and short story writer based in North Manchester UK Her work has appeared in local and national magazines as well as in anthologies Her work is eclectic in content and tone and usually inspired by whatever has got stuck in her mind at the time owls text messages medieval poetry werewolves mental healthShe works as an editor and creative writing tutor for various UK organizations She edited Wolf Girls Dark Tales of Teeth Claws and Lycogyny a collection of short stories about female werewolves by international authors Hannah is currently working on an anthology entitled Impossible Spaces to be published in July 2013. Book impossible spaces pdf I m not a one for dark fiction or horror because of this Impossible Spaces didn t have as many stories that surprised and delighted me as I would have liked However the stories I enjoyed I greatly enjoyed so I assume that the sort of reader who does go for dark fiction will really like this collection Fiction Poetry Horror This collection published by Hic Dragones consists of twenty one short stories themed around the idea of other worlds It is not strictly speaking a collection of supernatural tales nor even so called strange tales More an eclectic mix from some excellent writers some better known than others giving their takes on the idea of a place that exists somewhere between the familiar and the unknown. Impossible spaces art Some of these impossible spaces are represented psychologically some physically Opening up proceedings is The Carrier by Daisy Black a bleak and claustrophobic tale involving both approaches The protagonist tells her tale of being taken from her family as a child and leading a life of drudgery as a carrier that is being confined within a spiral staircase taking objects up and down the steps at the behest of a strange master living at the top of the tower The staircase becomes her whole world the number of steps known to her by heart That is until she starts to take an interest in the objects she carries One day she is given an astrolabe to deliver which becomes the precursor to greater knowledge and the expansion of the world within her mind She begins to examine all the strange objects she carries eventually obtaining a strange enlightenment resulting in role reversal. Impossible spacesl las vegas A different kind of space is involved in Mistfall by Jeanette Greaves Luke is killed in a car accident leaving Georgia his wife and his passenger unscathed and with a sense of survivor s guilt The fog which had concealed the jack knifed lorry returns to her increasingly over the ensuing years becoming a welcome world of its own into which she gratefully disappears finding some kind of peace at last. Impossible books to read Rather less inviting is the nether land at the crux of Nepenthes by Keris McDonald This is a gritty and tense tale of Council cleaners assigned to Campbell House a tower block in Howe Farm a very rough housing estate Brian is partnered with Alan a experienced operator and they are subjected both to abuse by tenants and the filthy thankless task of cleaning the place The oppressive atmosphere is having its effect upon them by the time they reach the seventh floor when they get to the end of a dark forbidding corridor and smell something bad from behind the door of a flat They call the police and after a nerve wracking wait inexplicably they find a constable walking through the car park who helps them investigate Do policemen get lost Brian wonders Nevertheless they break in to the flat finding flies and cockroaches but not much else Until that is they check in the bedroom a black place into which than just light is sucked This is a satisfying tale of urban squalor and one of my favourites here. Impossible Spaces poetry books Sharpened Senses has a fascinating premise that of someone being able to see than the usual number of colours and therefore witnessing things that others do not As such Miss Ebisawa is a Tetrachromat having to wear a blindfold to avoid seeing ghosts and monsters normally invisible unable to function normally she has checked herself into an asylum and sits in a white room She is studied with interest by the doctors who believe her problems are psychological The circumstances of her disappearance however provide questions than answers. Impossible space meaning I found Great Rates Central Location by Hannah Kate to be most intriguing A Sisyphian tale about the tribulations of Sarah who has misguidedly booked a few nights in the very cheapest of the chain hotels in London it conveys the sense of dislocation felt in such circumstances This is worsened for her by waking up the next morning in a different hotel room one without windows this premise recalling Aickman s The Hospice of course She also finds herself strangely transformed and about to be captured by the hotel itself by which time the price she paid no longer seemed like a bargain. Impossible spaces epub reddit The Meat House by Maree Kimberley is a powerfully written and bold tale but perhaps the most literal of the stories here and a little too gory for my taste By contrast The Hostel is the closest to a conventional ghost story in the collection investigating what seems like a parallel universe accessed from a tiny room in a hostel Blurring reality with hallucination with humour and a delightfully light touch its message comes across clearly everyone has their own unique reality. Kindle impossible spaces free I enjoyed the rest of these stories particularly The Place of Revelation Unfamiliar and Bruises and no weak links are present An eye catching cover and good design and production by Hic Dragones I have the kindle version add up to an important collection that every fan of short stories be they ghostly strange or weird should read Fiction Poetry Horror Hannah Kate weaves together authors both emerging and established to create a portal into an impossible space This collection of short stories both captivating and thought provoking explores the innumberable what ifs of that place from various viewpoints A very enjoyable and much needed read Fiction Poetry Horror
Sometimes the rules can change Sometimes things aren t how they appear Sometimes you can just slip through the cracks and end up somewhere else What else is there Is there somewhere else right beside you if you could only reach out and touch it Or is it waiting to reach out and touch you Don t trust what you see Don t trust what you hear Don t trust what you remember It isn t what you think.
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Impossible spaces art A new collection of twenty one dark unsettling and weird short stories that explore the spaces at the edge of possibility:
Impossible spacesium Stories by Ramsey Campbell Simon Bestwick Hannah KateJeanette Greaves Richard Freeman Almira HolmesArpa Mukhopadhyay Chris Galvin NguyenChristos Callow Jr
