Myth to Madness: Short Fiction and Poetry

Award winning author Fay Thompson offers a collection of haunting, unusual, captivating stories designed to bemuse and entertain the reader in this first collection of short fiction and poetry. This includes several never-before published stories and poems written exclusively for this volume.

[Special Notice: While Smashwords requires me to list this under adult and erotica this is because ONE story in this anthology uses erotic descriptives. The rest of the stories are not adult or erotic.]

In this new anthology, Fay Thompson bends reality to reveal the enigmatic, hidden world that lies around us. Myth to Madness includes previously published pieces of short fictionstories, poetry, and the beginning chapters of two upcoming novels that were written exclusively for her In The News monthly newsletter.

Myth to Madness explores the mysterious world hiding in plain sight and looks under the skin at our fragile and truest selves. Here you will find unusual horror stories, science fiction adventures and fairy tales blended to Native and Irish mythos, future fiction and the just plain weird. Her poetry offers echoes of her fiction and invites the wandering mind to question easy assumptions. In Spirit Wordsa thematic companion to Petroglyph MemoriesThompson explores the ancient petroglyphs of Winnemucca that hint firmly at astronaut stories carved for eternity in stone. Her Irish Comic Con story Claiomh Solais, The White Glave of Light reflects off Sides Chosen and hints at hidden mechanics operating below the surface of the worlds politics. Ningyo warns of the danger of ignoring old legends. While Torpor Hibernators focuses attention on the absence of constraints on the super wealthy as they open the frontier that is space. We are all destined for A Ship Called Prota as disposable cargo on an overburdened planet. These short takes offer a glimpse of futures past and the critical role of the observer as we navigate our path.

A cerebral writer whose imagination enjoys the unusual, Thompson entrances with her characters who never take themselves too seriously. She invites us to be dragged along in their wake, discovering the fantastical and worrisome in the process. Wonder abides. Mystery lurks. Hints of terror are never far distant but the promise remains. Myth to Madness is a good introduction to this writer's short fiction.

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