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| 'Maggot and Misogyny', by Iain Grant |
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-A writer has trouble getting started on his latest work.
This month's review item, by Iain Grant, successfully blends dark comic humour with emotional pain, to produce a two way short-story dialect, which is both moving and intruiging, whilst side-splittingly funny at the same time.
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| 'The Inn', by Guy de Maupassant |
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-When one of the winter caretakers of an isolated mountain inn goes missing, lonliness begins to take it's toll on the other.
See how a master of the short story can take a simple idea and turn it into a piece of literary art that you will read and never forget.Maupassant's fascinating work portrays the brutality and cruelty of the severe cold, building tension brilliantly throughout the story, until the despair becomes almost palpable.
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| 'Amy Foster', by Joseph Conrad |
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-A young girl falls in love with a mysterious stranger, shipwrecked in the bay near her village.
Conrad's very well written and very interesting short story, is not exactly a conventional romace, but might just bring a tear to your eye anyway. The video rendition/adaption ('Swept From the Sea') is breathtaking; the original story is something else, and an amazing metaphor for time and love.
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All of these stories and more can be found at www.short-stories.co.uk courtesy of East of, East of the Web. See links page for a quick jump there. -Jon.
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