SMFS list member M. E. Proctor’s short story
collection, Family and Other Ailments: Crime Stories Close to Home
was recently released by Wordwooze Publishing. Published in digital and print
formats, the read is available at Amazon
and other vendors.
Amazon Description:
Blood ties. The family we’ve been given, the friends
we make, the loves we keep, and those we lost. The twenty-six stories in Family
and Other Ailments teeter on the brink, hover at the periphery or even the
possibility of crime. Under a soft light and at an angle, they're all love
stories.
The collection opens with “Spy Head,” a tale of
friendship after a crushing trauma. In “Texas Two-Step,” brotherhood leads to a
wicked double-cross. “Razorbills” shows a young woman seeking freedom from the
prison-like caring of her sibling. “Black and Tan” slips into domestic horror,
as does “Mutti,” with a hint of the fantastic. “Hour of the Bat” and “Bag
Limit” are deep woods Texas noir, while “A Head for Numbers” and “No Recoil” go
west, to the stark unforgiving beauty of the desert.
M.E. Proctor draws characters with a tender touch. She
catches them at an inflexion point in their lives, a moment of choice. We feel
what they feel, see what they see, and their voices linger for a long time in
our memory.
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