Wyrd Tales for Woeful Times

By:

• Aoife Anastasia

Could you tell a funny, entertaining, meaningful story with a twist in 500 words? How about in 100 words with just 24 hours to write it? Writing this kind of flash fiction is what kept author Aoife Anastasia occupied and mostly sane through the woeful times of the pandemic lockdowns and a cancer diagnosis. The result is an unpredictable, sometimes fun and sometimes twisted collection of twenty-one stories and two narrative poems that include adult fairy tales, science fiction, horror, comedy, and romance. Each story includes one of Aoife's quirky drawings, the original writing prompt, and the woe that helped weave each tale.
In Wyrd Tales for Woeful Times, among other amazing characters, you will meet a "mature" Dorothy who has been shacking up with Scarecrow for the last few decades, a flatulent Queen Victoria in a bathtub, a murderer of a murderer, a seductive Gaugin in love with Van Gogh, six martyrs, a hoodlum tooth fairy, two hopeless Panda Sexuality consultants, several treasure hunters, and Adam's Eve: a woman who knows what she wants. This is a collection of weird/wyrd, wonderful, whimsical, wyld stories that cannot be put in a box-except that all were written in a frenetic 24 hours, and all will make you look at the world a little differently than you did before.

Format: Paperback