The
Goblin Child and Other Stories
Michael
Forester
Genre:
Short stories,
Contemporary
fiction
Publisher:
Pegasus House Publishing
Publication
date: 1st October 2016
ISBN:
978-0-9955248-1-1
Book
Description:
Michael
Forester’s award winning short stories and flash fiction range from
fantasy to young love and old fear, LGBT relationships to
spirituality & religion, metaphor to morals, to literary fiction.
Always these powerful, highly original tales are gripping and
readable, stories that surprise, illuminate, engage and enrich:
• A
man who remembers his birth in terrifying detail
• A
woman who is certain she has given birth to a goblin child
• A
child who takes his god to school for show and tell
• A
youth who prefers his revenge served cold
• A
teenage girl who, due to her love of nature, falls under the spell of
a sexual predator
• A
priest confronted by a man who believes he is Santa
• A
worker in a care home who is never permitted to leave
• A
man who sees the purpose of his life only after he dies
• A
dying poet who searches desperately for the interracial love of his
youth
In
this apparently unconnected and eclectic group of tales, Michael
Forester explores the circularity of our lives. The collection
culminates unexpectedly in the story of a dying poet who finds, then
loses, interracial love in a racist age, and discovers with TS Eliot
that he ‘arrives where he began, to know the place for the first
time.’ In so doing Forester reveals to us the circularity of our
lives and that the events in them, so independent, so seemingly
random, are truly interdependent, connected, planned.
“Venture
into the world of Michael Forester’s short story collection and
it’s unlikely you’ll want to step away. You’ll experience a
rollercoaster of emotions as you read the 30 stories that have
emerged over 16 years, emanating from eclectic themes including
ecology, racism, child abuse, politics, family, relationships, war,
anti-exploitation in all its guises, and so much more. This is a
fascinating, raw, heart-wrenching, beautiful and shocking collection
of stories that are crying out to be read.”
About
the Author:
Some
are born with silver spoons in their mouths. Michael Forester was
born with a pen in his hand. He is a deafened writer living in, and
drawing his inspiration from, Hampshire’s New Forest. Michael’s
most recent book, The Goblin Child, is a disarmingly eclectic
collection of prize winning short stories exploring the circularity
of our lives and the events in them, so independent, so seemingly
random, yet truly interdependent, connected, planned. It follows his
first published creative work in 2009, If It Wasn’t For That Dog,
about his first year with his hearing dog, and his hugely successful
2016 novel in rhyming verse, Dragonsong.
Michael
is a Winchester Writer’s Festival prizewinner and has been
long/shortlisted three times in the Fish Writing Contest. His work
has appeared several international journals and competitions.
His
children look on aghast as he squanders their inheritance on such
profligacies as A4 printing paper. They need have no concern. He
plans to leave them the pen.
Michael
divides his time between Hampshire and Somerset, and is regularly to
be found at book signings and events across the country talking about
storytelling or his beloved hearing dog Matt. He attended Oxford
University.
Website:
http://www.michaelforester.co.uk
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/authorforester1
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