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Trust Issues
A collection of stories by Ken Mooney, author of Godhead, The Hades Contract, The Little Book Of The End Of The World, Tackling The Issue and After The Tackle.
Horror is a powerful way of analysing human anger, fear, addiction, betrayal, resentment. Even arousal.
These are stories with common themes and issues, those of trust, hope, promises, and what ultimately happens when all those nice fluffy, positive things are broken.
Resident’s Bar, the broken truths of past infidelities that breaks a family apart;
88 Steps, a tale of addiction and the lies that go along with it;
The Shortest Night, embracing new members into your family, for better, for worse and ‘til death will you part;
Black + A Picture Of a short piece about abandonment, inspired by Oscar Wilde;
and
Worship, a completely new work about betrayal and the anger it causes, addressing sex and sexuality alongside the fears and joys that go along with it.
Although originally published separately, I have brought the stories together to share a common home, one of fear, one of pain, one of the deep and uncomfortable connections between trust and betrayal.
Horror is a powerful way of analysing human anger, fear, addiction, betrayal, resentment. Even arousal.
These are stories with common themes and issues, those of trust, hope, promises, and what ultimately happens when all those nice fluffy, positive things are broken.
Resident’s Bar, the broken truths of past infidelities that breaks a family apart;
88 Steps, a tale of addiction and the lies that go along with it;
The Shortest Night, embracing new members into your family, for better, for worse and ‘til death will you part;
Black + A Picture Of a short piece about abandonment, inspired by Oscar Wilde;
and
Worship, a completely new work about betrayal and the anger it causes, addressing sex and sexuality alongside the fears and joys that go along with it.
Although originally published separately, I have brought the stories together to share a common home, one of fear, one of pain, one of the deep and uncomfortable connections between trust and betrayal.
- GenresHorror
ebook
Published February 19, 2018
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About the author
Ken Mooney
13 books48 followersKen Mooney was born in Dublin in the middle of the 1980s; he still lives there. He holds an MA in English Studies from TCD, which he totally uses every day during his day-job...totally.
He's always been obsessed with stories, reading, writing and playing them; that explains the massive collection of books, comics, video games and discarded Word documents. His writing is a combination of all the things that he's passionate about, all the way through high-and-low-brow.
(Note from Ken: I don't log into Goodreads often, so best way to get in touch is via my website or Twitter.)
He's always been obsessed with stories, reading, writing and playing them; that explains the massive collection of books, comics, video games and discarded Word documents. His writing is a combination of all the things that he's passionate about, all the way through high-and-low-brow.
(Note from Ken: I don't log into Goodreads often, so best way to get in touch is via my website or Twitter.)
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December 6, 2020
In this five story collection you learn different things: Don't trust the bartender in "Residents' Bar", "88 Steps" to end a strange relationship, why the smell remains after a bizarre ritual in "The Shortest Night". Black + White: A Picture of Dorian Gray gives a variation of the Dorian Gray theme. "Worship" depicts an usual meeting up of two strangers in a hotel room. The first story was my favorite but also the rest was absolutely readable with an interesting twist. An author you can trust!
December 22, 2022
4.5 stars
This collection of short stories sees my first time reading Ken Mooney work and I must say that I am really impressed. The stories are short but deliver on depth and are well worked. The stories in this work are very varied which gives the reader a true feel for the author and their writing style and but for a few little editing issues this would be a complete knockout of a book.
This collection of short stories sees my first time reading Ken Mooney work and I must say that I am really impressed. The stories are short but deliver on depth and are well worked. The stories in this work are very varied which gives the reader a true feel for the author and their writing style and but for a few little editing issues this would be a complete knockout of a book.
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