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Jack Ketchum · 2003
A collection of short stories spanning horror, suspense, and dark fiction, showcasing Ketchum's range from violent extremes to quieter psychological narratives, all proceeding from dark places while exploring themes of diversity, union, and harmony.
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What this book knows
Ordinary lives fracture at the edges where intimacy fails, violence intrudes, and grief refuses to stay quiet.
grief
my twenty-eight-year companion, the woman I slept with and woke with and laughed with and held in my arms was dead on the floor in a pool of blood and wine
PK-RC-148he thought of making love to her, her intense, amazing passion that was easily the equal to his own and the like of which he'd never even knew existed in a woman
PK-RC-182June naked and waiting for me, the bright eyes empty and the gash in her neck ugly as badly butchered meat but waiting there in our bed for all that
PK-RC-159trauma-and-survival
she found herself having beaten her oldest child with a soup ladle across the face and head without remembering having done so
PK-RC-134Sadie would rebel but only so far. Then like all the others she was forced to obey. Oh, fuck you, Doc.
PK-RC-136intimacy
Nights we went back to each other's bodies laughing like street kids with a secret. Or like swimmers adrift in the Aegean, buoyed by ageless waters.
PK-RC-143Illuminates
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