We Danced Without Strings: Six Short Stories of Unaccountable Hope

by Hannah Holborn

A teen survives neglect, abuse and the foster care system by believing in love and unconditional acceptance. A young mother moves through anger and fear to joy on the day her daughter is diagnosed with a debilitating syndrome. An aged prospector makes peace on the day of her death with the help of a mischievous hallucination.

Four of these stories also appear in Hannah Holborn’s acclaimed collection Fierce

Praise for Fierce:

“The stories in Fierce contain beautiful writing, offbeat characters, and strange scenarios…there is humanity and honesty in this collection that really makes it work.”–Alexis Kienlen, Grande Prairie Ink
Holborn repeatedly demonstrates her skill in handling utterly disparate, and wholly unique, characters in surprising, and often surprisingly effective ways. Robert J. Wieresma, The Edmonton Journal

“(Holborn’s) imagination…runs riot with vivid and eccentric characters. (Her) scenarios vary from Monty Python to Russian tragedy.”–Jan DeGrass, Coast Reporter

“(Fierce has) a bracing farcical edge that could hardly be blacker. . . . Holborn’s double high-wire act leaps effortlessly between funny and tragic. . . . [Her] visuals are cinematic.”
– The Globe and Mail

“Holborn…fills the pages of her collection with . . . one-of-a-kind characters, in stories that run the gamut from unfortunately heartbreaking to unaccountably hopeful.”
– Canadian Living

“The short stories and final novella in this collection are like backstories to those pictures you run across where something strange and maybe slightly soiled is happening in medias res and you wonder what led up to the moment.” Scotchneat.ca

61 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 22, 2017

About the author

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Hannah Holborn’s rehabilitation work with trauma survivors inspires her dark and addictive suspense novels.

All That Remains is a"roller coaster from beginning to end." -Amazon Customer

All That Remains is a "dark, complex and suspenseful mystery."--Amazon Customer

Strange Lineup "...totally blew me away."--Majanka, I heart reading.

Fierce is “vivid and eccentric...”—Jan DeGrass, Coast Reporter

Fierce has “beautiful writing, offbeat characters, and strange scenarios — Alexis Kienlen, Grande Prairie Ink

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