The Soul Shadow and Other Tales of Tomorrow

By Linda Talbot

The eleven stories in "The Soul Shadow and Other Tales of Tomorrow", are often rooted in reality. But they soon become improbably perturbing, droll or outlandish. However, in The Soul Shadow - the first story - we are already in a weird and wonderful future, whose equilibrium is threatened by former traits of dark ambition.
In "Klein", a curious creature designed for a film set, begins to breathe, then takes off in a bid for freedom....
And the ageing fortune teller in "Zizi's Last Wish", opts for her ashes to be launched in an urn into outer space where she hopes to discover, even after death, the secrets of the universe!
People, who at first appear to be living an everyday life, are suddenly pitched into an unearthly element or terrified by events beyond their control.
In "The Flood", why was a whole community borne away so rapidly by the rising water? And in "The Bell Flowers of Lymphos", how had malicious plants taken root so readily in humble homes and gardens?
You won't find any answers but enjoy these deviations, even if they are the stuff of bad dreams. At least you can confront them while awake!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Linda Talbot
• Release date: Jan 29, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301448845

Linda Talbot

Linda Talbot has written fantasy for children and adults and for many years reviewed art, theatre and books in London. She now lives in Crete. She published "Fantasy Book of Food"; rhymes, stories and recipes for children and "Five Rides by a River" - about Suffolk, seen from a bicycle! She contributed a chapter to a book about Conroy Maddox, the British surrealist and features on art to "Topos" the German landscape magazine. She published short stories with the British Fantasy Society as well as stories and poetry in other magazines. And she launched "Wordweavers", an online supplement of poetry and fiction, published in conjunction with The Cretan International Community.

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