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When Pigs Fly: 3 Novellas in One
The first story 'Anna and the Moon' is about a woman who seeks revenge through magic. After the death of her Mother and a messy divorce, Anna wants to escape and build a new life by the sea. When Anna meets a new man she at last feels her life is turning around, but Marcus has many faces and none of them are kind. What Marcus doesn't expect is that Anna's mother's friend has a box full a magic tricks, and Marcus is about to receive his comeuppance.
The second story concerns a man who was murdered by his wife, because she was possessed by a demon. He is reborn into the body of a pig but remembers who he used to be. Luckily for him the policeman's wife is an animal psychic and can sense something is wrong. Will the two plump detectives be able to save the man's wife from the dark side? Or will the pig be turned into another bacon sandwich?
The final story is about a world where humans have turned into dogs. Only when they rise up against their fascists enemies do they see themselves as human again. A dark tale warning us of a possible totalitarian future where everything looks beautiful but nobody is free.
The second story concerns a man who was murdered by his wife, because she was possessed by a demon. He is reborn into the body of a pig but remembers who he used to be. Luckily for him the policeman's wife is an animal psychic and can sense something is wrong. Will the two plump detectives be able to save the man's wife from the dark side? Or will the pig be turned into another bacon sandwich?
The final story is about a world where humans have turned into dogs. Only when they rise up against their fascists enemies do they see themselves as human again. A dark tale warning us of a possible totalitarian future where everything looks beautiful but nobody is free.
191 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 14, 2021
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July 26, 2021
When Pigs Fly is a collection of three novellas by British author, David Peter Shaw.
Pigsara: Farmer Anthony Jackson wasn’t expecting to be brutally murdered with a scythe by his wife, but he’s even more surprised to find himself inside the body of a piglet on a nearby farm. Jennifer Jackson is fairly confident that with some help from her magic, she’ll get away with killing Anthony, but she’s not counting on Constable Alfred Mildew. Or his wife.
The Constable seems the bumbling type, but might be more tenacious than she realises. And, as much as Alfred dismisses the whole thing, Hilary communicates with animals, and a certain piglet is on her radar.
That’s a start with some potential, but then it deteriorates into a melodramatic cliché, not enough piglet and far too much lapsed priest and demonically-possessed temptress, culminating in an exorcism. There’s a lot of silliness with the characters, the writing is sloppy, the story is riddled with typographical errors and inconsistencies and it basically reads like a first draft unseen by an editor. 1 star for a good start.
Anna and The Moon: Marcus Howe is the stereotypically arrogant man who has no qualms about using women for his own pleasure. Shy, somewhat fragile Anna is the perfect target. But he doesn’t reckon with Sheila, best friend of Anna’s recently deceased mother, who dabbles with magic a little… A rather drunken night in with a spell results in nasty consequences for Marcus. But Anna isn’t finished.
This one is definitely a better story, but is still plagued by poor writing and lots of typos, grammatical errors. This might be a second draft… 2 stars
Once When We Were Human: In a totalitarian state where the humans have all turned into dogs (what about the dogs that were already dogs? Are they still dogs? This isn't explained) and the wolves are in charge, Justin S Serch is all for being submissive but his wife and the academic neighbours are protesting and ending up in jail.
Abandoned at 45% too boring 1 star
With each novella, readers with a basic command of English will be unable to set down their metaphorical red correcting pen because of the high volume of errors: “to” for “too”, “of” for “off”, lack of punctuation, misplaced apostrophes, grammatical errors and inconsistencies, all distract from the read. And the author’s Amazon profile begs customers to buy his books so he can fund his travels! Seriously? Give it a miss.
Pigsara: Farmer Anthony Jackson wasn’t expecting to be brutally murdered with a scythe by his wife, but he’s even more surprised to find himself inside the body of a piglet on a nearby farm. Jennifer Jackson is fairly confident that with some help from her magic, she’ll get away with killing Anthony, but she’s not counting on Constable Alfred Mildew. Or his wife.
The Constable seems the bumbling type, but might be more tenacious than she realises. And, as much as Alfred dismisses the whole thing, Hilary communicates with animals, and a certain piglet is on her radar.
That’s a start with some potential, but then it deteriorates into a melodramatic cliché, not enough piglet and far too much lapsed priest and demonically-possessed temptress, culminating in an exorcism. There’s a lot of silliness with the characters, the writing is sloppy, the story is riddled with typographical errors and inconsistencies and it basically reads like a first draft unseen by an editor. 1 star for a good start.
Anna and The Moon: Marcus Howe is the stereotypically arrogant man who has no qualms about using women for his own pleasure. Shy, somewhat fragile Anna is the perfect target. But he doesn’t reckon with Sheila, best friend of Anna’s recently deceased mother, who dabbles with magic a little… A rather drunken night in with a spell results in nasty consequences for Marcus. But Anna isn’t finished.
This one is definitely a better story, but is still plagued by poor writing and lots of typos, grammatical errors. This might be a second draft… 2 stars
Once When We Were Human: In a totalitarian state where the humans have all turned into dogs (what about the dogs that were already dogs? Are they still dogs? This isn't explained) and the wolves are in charge, Justin S Serch is all for being submissive but his wife and the academic neighbours are protesting and ending up in jail.
Abandoned at 45% too boring 1 star
With each novella, readers with a basic command of English will be unable to set down their metaphorical red correcting pen because of the high volume of errors: “to” for “too”, “of” for “off”, lack of punctuation, misplaced apostrophes, grammatical errors and inconsistencies, all distract from the read. And the author’s Amazon profile begs customers to buy his books so he can fund his travels! Seriously? Give it a miss.
July 22, 2021
Great stories, but very good editing!
The Author used Anthony and Alfred as two character names, but continually confused them in the story. There were also other missing and miss-spelled words. I highlighted them and hope the author edits the stories and issues a corrected version.
The stories were great, but those mistakes were very distracting!
The Author used Anthony and Alfred as two character names, but continually confused them in the story. There were also other missing and miss-spelled words. I highlighted them and hope the author edits the stories and issues a corrected version.
The stories were great, but those mistakes were very distracting!
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