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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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