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Feed: Collected Dark Tales
WHAT IF...
...those failed relationships you forgot about years ago came back to haunt you? Literally?
...you could project your soul from one place to another? What happens to your body when you do?
...you crossed paths with the most beautiful person on earth? Would you have the nerve to speak to them? What would you say?
...Nature requires blood sacrifices? And if it does, how do you keep from becoming one?
...you could listen to your rebellious child 'talking to himself' via your home's intercom...and discovered he wasn't just talking to himself after all...?
...you shook hands with a statue, and it measured the weight of your soul...and found it wanting?
...the duck conquest of the world began today? Would the rabbits and the lizards join in, and what the heck is a 'wolpertinger'?
...those failed relationships you forgot about years ago came back to haunt you? Literally?
...you could project your soul from one place to another? What happens to your body when you do?
...you crossed paths with the most beautiful person on earth? Would you have the nerve to speak to them? What would you say?
...Nature requires blood sacrifices? And if it does, how do you keep from becoming one?
...you could listen to your rebellious child 'talking to himself' via your home's intercom...and discovered he wasn't just talking to himself after all...?
...you shook hands with a statue, and it measured the weight of your soul...and found it wanting?
...the duck conquest of the world began today? Would the rabbits and the lizards join in, and what the heck is a 'wolpertinger'?
377 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 25, 2022
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James Reyome
4 books11 followersJust another hack with a Mac. I daydream a lot; sometimes I have weird ideas in those dreams and I write them down. Sometimes they end up in a story. I love my family and our birds and our hen and especially our cats...and, if you've ever read and enjoyed anything I wrote, I probably love with you. Probably.
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April 30, 2022
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This book reads like the author has been writing professionally and successfully for one hundred years or more. I read an ARC of this and I loved it. I read it again as soon as it came out and no doubt, I'll read it a third and fourth time.
I cannot get into words how good this is. The tales are creepy and disturbing, strange events manage to be perfectly rational, and you are transported off and away into brand new worlds. The whole book is compelling, and one particular story is one of my favourites of all time. Anatidaephobia, the fear that somewhere, somehow, a duck is watching you.... I would read that tale every day and not get bored, it's so perfectly done and that last line is incredible.
The author is a real outstanding talent and like many, really shouldn't be overlooked. There are all manner of spooky, horrifying and brilliant stories in this one.
I have a few favourite writers, and I met them all on Twitter. Some are doing really well, heading up the publishing ladder and I'm delighted by that. It's brilliant to see and even better when their books come out. A good few authors don't get noticed and it infuriates me. Really considering wearing a sandwich board with a name and book list of my lesser known favourites scrawled across and parade around the M1 on a mission to advertise ( until I'm arrested)
James Reyome would most definitely be on that list.
This book reads like the author has been writing professionally and successfully for one hundred years or more. I read an ARC of this and I loved it. I read it again as soon as it came out and no doubt, I'll read it a third and fourth time.
I cannot get into words how good this is. The tales are creepy and disturbing, strange events manage to be perfectly rational, and you are transported off and away into brand new worlds. The whole book is compelling, and one particular story is one of my favourites of all time. Anatidaephobia, the fear that somewhere, somehow, a duck is watching you.... I would read that tale every day and not get bored, it's so perfectly done and that last line is incredible.
The author is a real outstanding talent and like many, really shouldn't be overlooked. There are all manner of spooky, horrifying and brilliant stories in this one.
I have a few favourite writers, and I met them all on Twitter. Some are doing really well, heading up the publishing ladder and I'm delighted by that. It's brilliant to see and even better when their books come out. A good few authors don't get noticed and it infuriates me. Really considering wearing a sandwich board with a name and book list of my lesser known favourites scrawled across and parade around the M1 on a mission to advertise ( until I'm arrested)
James Reyome would most definitely be on that list.
May 11, 2022
How to describe the writing of James Reyome? Think Faulkner, only over a much larger territory, and a hell of a lot more accessible. But, like Faulkner, highly regional, and highly specialized. In Feed, he presents us with a character perhaps never seen before: The flawed, but heroic, Appalachian Caver. A man of many names, Appalachian Caver is the ultimate nihilistic misfit, one with the Earth--often literally--in an age of internet air. Yet we can relate to his nihilism, because at heart Appalachian Caver is no Nietzsche.
Reyome's style is remarkably easy-going for a dark narrator. This is perhaps the greatest strength of his writing. He doesn't kid when he calls these 'dark tales.' A lesser writer would let their madness overwhelm the narrative. Reyome does not. He helps you understand it, then lets his characters conquer it by wit, wariness, and inner strength. If they have a collective motto, it should be "Know Thyself."
There are minor quibbles. This is a self-published work, and occasionally the typos show it. Also, a couple of stories Reyome says were written in 1986, mention technologies and social trends that didn't exist in 1986. Internet trolls may try to attack the legitimacy of the work based on just this. Normal human beings will see it for what it is, a writer simply trying to make an older work more relatable to a modern audience. This is an outstanding collection of short stories, well-edited, worthy of your time and worthy of a major bookseller picking it up. Whether you're looking for a philosophical challenge or just a decent adventure yarn, you can't go wrong with Feed.
Reyome's style is remarkably easy-going for a dark narrator. This is perhaps the greatest strength of his writing. He doesn't kid when he calls these 'dark tales.' A lesser writer would let their madness overwhelm the narrative. Reyome does not. He helps you understand it, then lets his characters conquer it by wit, wariness, and inner strength. If they have a collective motto, it should be "Know Thyself."
There are minor quibbles. This is a self-published work, and occasionally the typos show it. Also, a couple of stories Reyome says were written in 1986, mention technologies and social trends that didn't exist in 1986. Internet trolls may try to attack the legitimacy of the work based on just this. Normal human beings will see it for what it is, a writer simply trying to make an older work more relatable to a modern audience. This is an outstanding collection of short stories, well-edited, worthy of your time and worthy of a major bookseller picking it up. Whether you're looking for a philosophical challenge or just a decent adventure yarn, you can't go wrong with Feed.
October 1, 2022
Lovely stories
I really enjoyed these short stories by James Reyome. I like the way they flowed and definitely opened the mind of the reader to life's possibilities even if a part of it is not quit reality but more fiction. But then again, most reality if you think of it starts as a fiction based on a dream.
I really enjoyed these short stories by James Reyome. I like the way they flowed and definitely opened the mind of the reader to life's possibilities even if a part of it is not quit reality but more fiction. But then again, most reality if you think of it starts as a fiction based on a dream.
June 30, 2022
The reviews are in!
Feed is delicious and you will want more!
Feed is delicious and you will want more!
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