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Short. Readable. Disturbing. The stories in Kaleidoscopes in the Dark paint the more sinister elements of the psyche in technicolour. The collection writhes with black humour, remnants of fairytales and gothic themes. A child carefully crawls through a world of plastic waste in search of water but knows she won't make it if the blood-drinking gulls catch a glimpse of her. A young woman plots her way onto the latest reality TV programme, where murderers are publicly executed in a manner that mirrors their crimes. Mice conspire with a seamstress to bring her dead fiancé back to life using an old…mehr

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Short. Readable. Disturbing. The stories in Kaleidoscopes in the Dark paint the more sinister elements of the psyche in technicolour. The collection writhes with black humour, remnants of fairytales and gothic themes. A child carefully crawls through a world of plastic waste in search of water but knows she won't make it if the blood-drinking gulls catch a glimpse of her. A young woman plots her way onto the latest reality TV programme, where murderers are publicly executed in a manner that mirrors their crimes. Mice conspire with a seamstress to bring her dead fiancé back to life using an old English tradition. Dip your toes into new dark fantasy worlds with these eleven short stories.
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Autorenporträt
B. G. Rogers is a short story writer and poet from Newcastle-Upon-Tyne (UK). She currently lives in Queenstown, Aotearoa New Zealand with a ginormous house rabbit called Oscar Wilde. Her work has been published internationally and commended by Aesthetica Magazine, shortlisted for the Manchester Fiction Prize and longlisted in the New Zealand Flash Fiction Day competition. In 2021 she was selected for the New Zealand Society of Authors (PEN NZ Inc) Mentor Programme for emerging writers. She's a founding trustee of the Queenstown Writers Festival and a member and organiser of the Queenstown Creative Writing Group. Kaleidoscopes in the Dark is her first short story collection.