Seven Stories
£10.00
A book of seven short stories from the poet Merryn Williams, on the theme of how the past influences the present, with good and not-so-good results.
Seven Stories, by Merryn Williams, ISBN 978-1-912710-87-4, £10 inc. p. and p. for UK addresses, £10 plus £5 p. and p. for worldwide addresses.
The death of an officer in the First World War raises troubling questions for his descendants. A woman in intensive care realises that her husband is trying to get rid of her. An innocent young man in the 1930s is hanged. Two incompatible people spend Christmas together. A rising young author publishes some thrilling poems about a string of women – but some of them are not happy.
Here are seven tales for our bleak, pre-war times; a mini-handful that punch above their word-weight. Much like G.K. Chesterton over 100 years ago, Williams offers ‘naught for your comfort … save that the sky grows darker yet’. Her disturbing narrators favour clarity over charity, unwilling to forgive themselves or anyone else.
      – Rip Bulkeley, poet and editor of What Rough Beast: An Anthology of Anti-Trump poetry
