A Bit of a Twist: Read on the Run

By Catherine Valenti, Laurie Axinn Gienapp, Loni Townsend and 7 more

The twelve short stories presented in A Bit of A Twist are each mostly normal and ordinary, but somewhere in the story is a twist. In "David's Not Here", "Marriage Counselor", "Down Home", "River Road", "Happily Ever After", and "Blind Date", the ending takes a bit of a twist from what you were probably expecting. "The Chateau de Puyguilhem" and "The Wish" take stories you're already familiar with, and give the whole thing a bit of a twist. "Reunion", "Eternal Youth", and "Aliens Among Us" each have a bit of a mental twist. And "Air of Authority" shows what happens when you twist around words.
As you read these stories, you will also discover that many of them involve some degree of revenge. Because, after all, what is revenge but twisting someone's own actions back on them?
And as always, each story in the Read on the Run series of anthologies is short, to suit your busy lifestyle.
 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Smoking Pen Press, LLC
• Release date: Dec 14, 2016
• ISBN: 9781944289065

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Reviews for A Bit of a Twist

[diana_long_thomas · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I received the book from the author with no expectation of a review. I voluntarily decided to review it. This is a book of short stories at most 4 pages in length that have some crazy endings. A Bit of a Twist is the perfect title for this anthology because I had no clue the story was going to go that way for almost all of them. The only story I didn't really like was the one about the alien, however, the ending made it slightly enjoyable. This would be a good book if you just want to read something short but entertaining.