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Dark Flash 3
Nine flash fiction tales by Maria Haskins. Ranging from science fiction to dark fantasy to horror, these nine tales will bring you into strange worlds and strange woods, where you might meet monsters and wolves, trolls and dogs, and what seems like a kindly old cleaning lady in an elevator. Nothing is quite what it seems here, and that's what makes these tales both weird and wonderful.
All nine stories originally appeared on R.B. Wood's Word Count Podcast in 2018.
All nine stories originally appeared on R.B. Wood's Word Count Podcast in 2018.
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Published December 7, 2018
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Maria Haskins
56 books141 followersMaria Haskins is a Swedish-Canadian writer and reviewer of speculative fiction. She was born and grew up in Sweden, and debuted as a writer there, but now lives just outside Vancouver with two kids, a husband, a snake, several noisy birds, and a very large black dog.
Her work is available in the short story collections WOLVES AND GIRLS (2023) and SIX DREAMS ABOUT THE TRAIN (2021).
Her work has appeared in several magazines and anthologies, including Best Horror of the Year, Lightspeed, Nightmare, The Deadlands, Shimmer, Cast of Wonders, Mythic Delirium, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Flash Fiction Online, and elsewhere.
She has had several books published in Sweden, but since 2015 she writes mainly in English.
Her work is available in the short story collections WOLVES AND GIRLS (2023) and SIX DREAMS ABOUT THE TRAIN (2021).
Her work has appeared in several magazines and anthologies, including Best Horror of the Year, Lightspeed, Nightmare, The Deadlands, Shimmer, Cast of Wonders, Mythic Delirium, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Flash Fiction Online, and elsewhere.
She has had several books published in Sweden, but since 2015 she writes mainly in English.
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March 2, 2019
Maria Haskins is a wonderful writer, as anyone who has read my reviews of her previous Dark Flash anthologies is probably aware.
Dark Flash 3 continues the collections of her stories written to feature in RB Wood's Word Count Podcast - short pieces of flash fiction often inspired by a photograph and then heading off into the wild blue yonder of Maria's imagination.
It's a quick read - with just nine pieces of flash fiction in there - making it an ideal book for a commute, though it might just transport you to more distant places as you read.
There are monsters here, and tales of transformation - sometimes into the very monsters themselves. Maria has a habit of picking at the seams of fairy tales and sewing them into a new set of clothes for her characters to wear. It's unnerving, in just the way you'd expect unravelling others' childhood legends to be.
Keep freaking me out, Maria, it's a twisted pleasure indeed!
One sidenote - a while ago, I reviewed Mic Drop by Rob Edwards, which also included a number of stories from the same podcast - and it's an interesting exercise to compare those that started out from the same point, and the destinations each author reached.
You can also hear the podcasts over at RB Wood's webpage here.
Dark Flash 3 continues the collections of her stories written to feature in RB Wood's Word Count Podcast - short pieces of flash fiction often inspired by a photograph and then heading off into the wild blue yonder of Maria's imagination.
It's a quick read - with just nine pieces of flash fiction in there - making it an ideal book for a commute, though it might just transport you to more distant places as you read.
There are monsters here, and tales of transformation - sometimes into the very monsters themselves. Maria has a habit of picking at the seams of fairy tales and sewing them into a new set of clothes for her characters to wear. It's unnerving, in just the way you'd expect unravelling others' childhood legends to be.
Keep freaking me out, Maria, it's a twisted pleasure indeed!
One sidenote - a while ago, I reviewed Mic Drop by Rob Edwards, which also included a number of stories from the same podcast - and it's an interesting exercise to compare those that started out from the same point, and the destinations each author reached.
You can also hear the podcasts over at RB Wood's webpage here.
December 18, 2018
I usually try to catch Maria Haskins' flash fiction when it's posted online or on the R.B. Wood podcast because I know it's always enjoyable. I did manage to catch quite a few of the stories from Dark Flash 1 & 2 when they were posted, but this year I somehow missed them all, so I was very happy to find that the 9 recent flash fiction stories she'd written for the podcast were available in this collection. I was eager to read it and it didn't disappoint. If you've ever read any of this author's fiction you'll know how brilliant it is. This collection of stories is quick to read, and the word that springs to mind for most of the stories is 'strange'. Strange in a thought-provoking, evocative, and intriguing sense.
There are shapeshifting wolves, dragons, and other strange other-worldly delights. Maria Haskins' talent is to take the ordinary and distort it to create something extraordinary. Stories that will definitely make you think. I enjoyed all the stories, but I think my favourite is "Sunlit Surface, Depths Below". That one is poignant and masterly in the way it uses imagery to express feelings and emotions.
There are shapeshifting wolves, dragons, and other strange other-worldly delights. Maria Haskins' talent is to take the ordinary and distort it to create something extraordinary. Stories that will definitely make you think. I enjoyed all the stories, but I think my favourite is "Sunlit Surface, Depths Below". That one is poignant and masterly in the way it uses imagery to express feelings and emotions.
December 19, 2018
I tore through this book, almost in one sitting. Each story is a small jewel. They are exactly the kinds of stories I love to read. And as a writer, they make me excited to sit and write!
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