Ranging from flash fiction to novelette, these stories are inturn chilling, playful, and melancholy. Every tale is rich with landscapeshaunted by loss and longing.
Carly Holmes Books
Living and writing on the west coast of Wales, this author delves into the darker corners of the human psyche. Their work frequently explores mystery and the supernatural, unafraid to embrace elements of horror. The writing style is incisive and evocative, crafting an atmosphere of suspense and unease. It is characterized by a mastery of building tension and utilizing uncanny elements to explore hidden fears.
Unhappily married mother of four, Annie is drowning in domestic servitude. She often wonders what her life could have been had she not had children, but when her youngest daughters perform a seemingly impossible act of levitation, her life is touched with magic and she realises that her girls are truly special and that she must protect them. Eventually Annie musters the courage to leave the wreck of her marriage, but she commits a terribly unthinkable, unmotherly act along the way. Crow Face, Doll Face explores being forced to live with the consequences of the decisions we make and the fantasies we construct to soothe ourselves when the life we live falls far short of the life we planned.