Twisted Rixter

by Gretchen Rix

What do ten randomly selected words from the dictionary and a writer’s imagination get you? TWISTED RIXTER-- Six devilishly twisted and surprising short stories. Take the words oryx, gymkhana, and thirty-two and you get a horror tale about a predatory family stalking the Southern coast. Take expiate, thimblerig, and nitwit and all of a sudden you’ve got a cat eats mouse story about heroism. Put loess, compliant and tick-tack-toe together and the cruise ship from hell you hope you’ll miss comes alive before your very eyes. Rounding it out are a screwball comedy (macadamia, waggly, and darkling), a very strange zoo story (rhinoceros, abominable and Welch Corgi), and the second in the Truepenny series (liable, Poland, and samba). Twisted Rixter is the first short story collection by Gretchen Rix, author of Arroyo and Talking to the Dead Guys.

164 pages, Paperback

First published January 5, 2014

Reviews

[Alicia Vogel · Rating 2 out of 5]

I'm not a big horror fan, but I love short stories so this was an experiment going out of my usual reading habits. It's entertaining, and is written well for the genre. It reminds me a bit like a more horror bent Twilight Zone TV series. Just not my cup of tea.

In short: Great for horror fans.

PS: Met the author and she is a total sweetheart. I will be checking out her other fare.

[odedo1 Audio book worm. · Rating 3 out of 5]

Joy of short stories.



The author Gretchen Rix imagination never takes breaks, her penmanship style is beautiful.
How she think of her creations is beyond me but she sure does a great job in writing it all, making all interesting.

The narration of this book by Theo Holland is perfectly done for each of the characters in the stories.


For listeners who like joy of short stories I do
recommend !!!



Oded Ostfeld.