Twisted: A Collection

by Amber Garr, Haley Brames, Kat Golding

Reach outside the fog that encapsulates your world.Rid yourself of limits and see reality unfurled. Stretch beyond your senses in this anthology of short stories and poems, where words can bruise your skin and cats can speak their minds. This collection of eerie writings embodies the fantastical, and sometimes frightening edges that encircle the world we live in. Every piece of prose and poetry reaches into the darker, mystical recesses of the human mind, calling forth the pieces of reality that are not always certain. Superstitions, black cats, hidden monsters, and dancing shadows drift through the pages of this chilling yet intriguing anthology.Become Twisted in an abundance of imagination that blurs the lines between our rippling realities.

154 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 8, 2016

About the author

Amber Garr spends her days as a scientist and nights writing about other worlds. Her childhood imaginary friend was a witch, Halloween is sacred, and she is certain she has a supernatural sense of smell. Amber is an award-winning author who, when not obsessing over the unknown, can be found reading or enjoying a good movie.

Learn more about Amber Garr and her other romance pen names at www.algarrbooks.com.

Reviews

[Jackles · Rating 2 out of 5]

Meh

I really enjoyed the 1st story and thought the entire book would have that feel, but by 35% I was just flat out bored and over this book.

[Sarah · Rating 2 out of 5]

A lot of the stories ended abruptly. They seemed like first chapters rather than short stories. Also, I'm not into poetry.

[Traci Otte · Rating 3 out of 5]

I have mixed emotions about this book. I like that there's a mix of types of characters and situations in the short stories and poems and that each took a short time to read. I was able to read it quickly because I read during short chunks of time between activities. They were interesting, and the writing overall was pretty good.

What I didn't like was that more editing was needed. There were some blatant mistakes that might not bother other people but that did bother me. In one poem, "breathe" was used instead of "breath," so that threw off the rhyming. In a later story, balance was restored when "breath" was used instead of "breathe." It was just disconcerting. There were a few other places where word order was off and stuff like that.

Some of the short stories were complete, and I enjoyed them very much, but some of them ended when it seemed like they were just beginning. I'm sure that was the point, but there didn't seem to be resolutions to some of them. They just left me wanting more.

I don't know if this will be a help to anyone or not. I did like it, and if you're not as picky as I am you'll probably like it a great deal.

[kathleen spalding · Rating 5 out of 5]

An entertaining anthology of the supernatural

An enjoyable anthology with a supernatural theme, Twisted held my attention from start to finish. The stories and poems are imaginative and well written. Some of them pulled at my heartstrings, others left me looking over my shoulder. ;-D. All were entertaining. Highly recommended!

[Katie · Rating 1 out of 5]

I didn't find these stories at all "eerie." They're not really even short stories; they each read more like the first couple pages of a longer book (and not a good book at that). Lots of mistakes that should have been caught in editing, but even a good grammar and usage pass would not have fixed the flat-out poor writing and storytelling here.