Current short story read is Nicole Flattery’s debut collection, Show them a good time.
Loving the title, cover, artwork and the general feel and pacing of her writing.
Nicole has so much to say, she observes meticulously. This is not a collection to be devoured.
I’m taking my time to read, every sentence is a story and those sentences have to get time.
I’ve read the first 3 stories, really enjoyed the opening story of the collection, Show them a good time but am noticing her protagonists, so far, are of one and the same type.
This might be a strength or other!
Either way, her writing, her thoughts, her style, her everything are genuinely fresh and genuinely dark and genuinely quirky. It can be easy to dub a book “dark” but I think that term needs to be carefully weighted and selfishly given.
#rozzie
Me. Writing. Stuff.
Just read Nicole’s first story- purchased in Borris, am hooked, it’s quirky and clever. One to watch.
Her short stories are just so good!