Weird Lies by Cherry Potts

Weird Lies by Cherry Potts

WINER of Saboteur 2014 - Best AnthologyThere's something about Liars' League that brings out the wildness in the writers' imaginations. Here we explore myth, fantasy, science fiction, and the indefinable what the - that makes up Weird. In true Liars' League fashion there is as much humour as there is darkness and poignancy. More than twenty tales, varying in style from stories not out of place in One Thousand and One Nights, to the completely bemusing. Discover mirrors that predict the immediate future and museums where your personal future life is exhibited in the kind of ephemeral objects that might normally find their way into a dustbin. Meet tadpoles, lazy assassins, and assiduous poisoners; observe deals with the devil, and workplace stress taken to its logical conclusion. Heroes, villains, and animals - anything and anyone could provide the twist in the tale - cursed travellers, persistent dreamers, aliens, robots and even ice might be the object, or source, of love. Stories from: Alan Graham, Alex Smith, Angela Trevithick, Andrew Lloyd Jones, Barry McKinley, C.T.Kingston, Christopher Samuels, David McGrath, David Malone, David Mildon, Derek Ivan Webster, Ellen O'Neill, James Smyth, Jonathan Pinnock, Joshan Esfandiari Martin, Lee Reynoldson, Lennart Lundh, Maria Kyle, Nichol Wilmor, Peng Shepherd, Rebecca J Payne, Richard Meredith, Richard Smyth, Tom McKay

There are twenty four stories in this collection and you can open it at any one of them and be in for a good readTo me this is the mark of an exceptional short story collection and Weird Lies is a worthy winner of the 2014 Saboteur Award for Best Anthology.

Each story stands alone and is, frankly, just pretty darn good. I
love being handed a book that I’ve not heard of before (I was sent this
through Goodreads’ First Reads, so didn’t know exactly what to expect)
and finding that it is this good. The fact that the stories cover a lot
of different topics and take on many different styles also makes the
reading of it all rather inspiring.Weird Lies is an excellent anthology and if you’re feeling
like reading something a little different, something that you can’t just
compartmentalise into a handful of genres, then I suggest you grab
this.

* Little Crocodile *

Cherry Potts is the Director of Arachne Press, for whom she is editor of almost all our anthologies and runs the Annual Solstice Shorts Festival. Cherry is the author of an epic fantasy novel, two collections of short stories, a photographic diary of a community opera, and has had many stories in anthologies, magazines and online. Her novel of sibling hatred in the 1920s, The Bog Mermaid, won the Quill LGBTQ+ Prose prize 2022. Katy Darby co-runs Liars’ League (www.liarsleague.com) and teaches Short Story Writing and Novel Writing at City University, London. Her first novel, The Whores’ Asylum, was published by Penguin in February 2012. Her personal website is www.katydarby.com. Katy is the co-editor of our Liars' League anthologies, London Lies, Lovers’ Lies, (award winning) Weird Lies and We/She Alex Smith was brought up in South Africa and until recently lived in Cape Town with her partner, their book-eating baby boy and their two dogs. She is now resident in Ireland. She has had four novels published in South Africa (Random House/Umuzi Imprint), was shortlisted for the 2010 Caine Prize and won the 2011Nielsens Bookseller’s Choice Award. She has been published before by Arachne Press, in Weird Lies

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ISBN 13	9781909208100
ISBN 10	1909208108
Title	Weird Lies
Author	Cherry Potts
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Arachne Press
Year published	2013-09-26
Number of pages	160
Prizes	Winner of Saboteur Awards: Best Fiction Anthology 2014
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.