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An unsettling, powerful collection\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n Award-winning Woodruff\u2019s panache for writing shines in his second collection of short stories with the wildly imagined worlds, powerfully drawn realistic characters, and an unsettling portrayal of various happenings in his protagonists\u2019 lives. Merging the profound emotions of joy, fear, loss, love, foreboding, and incomprehension, Woodruff\u2019s twelve stories are set around particular holidays of the year. \u201cThe Alban Eiler\u201d is a story of two women and their adolescent daughters, who despite being born thousands of years apart, share the same fate on Easter. Woodruff\u2019s enlivening imagination runs wild in \u201cMy After Life,\u201d a lighthearted story of a person whose life was always mundane, but the afterlife was nothing like he expected. In \u201cAmy\u2019s Valentine,\u201d the protagonist is struggling to move forward after her daughter\u2019s death when a handsome stranger arrives at her door on valentine\u2019s day and reunites her with her daughter. The protagonist\u2019s \u2018monumental sorrow\u2019 is the story\u2019s dominant tone, but it changes to \u2018chillingly scary\u2019 suddenly with a single scene in the finale. In \u201cThe Shadow People,\u201d the protagonist arrives in an isolated Northern Canadian town to attend a wedding unaware of a strange twist of fate awaiting her. \u201cBoxed in by Fate,\u201d is a heartening tale that takes place in a strange universe where life unfolds one fateful box at a time, and a couple receives a pleasant surprise. In \u201cThe Color of the Soul,\u201d a police sergeant with the unusual ability of seeing a person’s soul gets a chance to see what his own soul looks like on a Halloween night. \u201cA Christmas Tale,\u201d is an unsettling story in which the protagonist with a strange sense of foreboding when destiny was about to take tragic turn in her life realizes this year\u2019s Christmas season was no different. Some stories are funny with lighter moments (\u201cLenny the Djinn\u201d), but the major chunk is dark and chillingly unsettling (The Dark New Year, Just Desert). Woodruff\u2019s best skill is examining the depth of the fear in the human mind, and that\u2019s what stays at the heart of the book\u2019s theme. The powerful illustrations perfectly match the collection\u2019s ominous mood, making an immediate impact on readers\u2019 minds. This haunting collection draws on the deepest emotions of love, grief, fear, foreboding, and hope and will stay at readers\u2019 minds long after they finish the book. This is a marvelous collection from a very talented writer.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n An unsettling, powerful collection\u2026 Award-winning Woodruff\u2019s panache for writing shines in his second collection of short stories with the wildly imagined worlds, powerfully drawn realistic characters, and an unsettling portrayal of various happenings in his protagonists\u2019 lives. Merging the profound emotions of joy, fear, loss, love, foreboding, and incomprehension, Woodruff\u2019s twelve stories are set around particular holidays of the year. \u201cThe Alban Eiler\u201d is a story of two women and their adolescent daughters, who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145610851,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"An Editorial Book Review Website\n\nBook review: Tales from the Aether: Extraodinary Tales by Matthew C. 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Extraodinary Tales of Dark Fiction, Dark Humor and Horror<\/h2>\n
by Matthew C. Woodruff<\/h3>\n
Buy now<\/a><\/h4>\n
Pub date December 1, 2019<\/h4>\n
ASIN: B07ZPHVTSB<\/h4>\n
Price $3.01 (USD) Kindle edition, $9.95 Paperback<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"