My Psyche: A Collection of Short Stories

by Atlas Eccelstone

Enter the mind of a writer.

Get all of the original stories published to curtiscalkins.com, with special commentary, as well as six never-before published short stories. If you liked stories such as My Final Night Shift and The Wall, this is your chance to collect a physical, or digital, copy of the stories you love, and much more.

118 pages, Paperback

Published February 5, 2017

About the author

Atlas Eccelstone is an emerging novelist and short story writer, currently situated in Edmonton, Alberta. Born to a military family in York, Ontario, Eccelstone has moved from one edge of Canada to the next. With this subsequently unique sense of perspective of the world around him, Eccelstone enjoys crafting pieces of fiction focusing on the frailty of the human mind and what it is that makes us who we are.
When Eccelstone is not writing, he can often be found soaking up storytelling of all sorts from the poetry of Edgar Allen Poe to the video games designed by Bethesda Softworks.

Reviews

[Kevin · Rating 5 out of 5]

First, I have to say that I did win this book in a Goodreads Giveaway, although that never skews my opinion on any book. Curtis Calkins is astounding young writer and I will have to follow his career closely. This collection of short stories was nothing short of utterly engrossing. It is notable that I finished it in a day, because I found it difficult to put down. It is self edited, so there are some grammatical and spelling errors, although at times it is hard to tell if that is largely intended. Mark Twain said that he never trusted a man who could spell a word only one way. Well I very much trust Curtis, at least narratively and with the treasures of the English Language. While he swims in the dark parts of our collective minds, it only serves to teach us some finely honed lessons about the human condition. It is only by experiencing the dark that we can learn to have true compassion and I certainly was not left unaffected. What an excellent tome which I highly recommend!