A collection of stories by Ken Mooney, author of Godhead, The Hades Contract, Apocalypse...Whenever, The Astrocytoma Diaries, Tackling The Issue and After The Tackle.
Horror is a powerful way of analysing human emotion: anger, fear, addiction, betrayal, resentment. Even arousal.
These are stories with common themes and issues, those of trust, hope, promises, and what ultimately happens when all those nice fluffy, positive things are broken.
- Resident's Bar, the broken truths of past infidelities that breaks a family apart;
- 88 Steps, a tale of addiction and the lies that go along with it;
- The Shortest Night, embracing new members into your family, for better, for worse and 'til death will you part;
- Black + White: A Picture Of Gray: a short piece about abandonment, inspired by Oscar Wilde;
and
- Worship, a completely new work about betrayal and the anger it causes, addressing sex and sexuality alongside the fears and joys that go along with it.
Although originally published separately, I have brought the stories together to share a common home, one of fear, one of pain, one of the deep and uncomfortable connections between trust and betrayal.
