Ugly Little Things

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>THIS IS GOING TO HURT.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The eleven stories in </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Ugly Little Things</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> explore the depths of human suffering and ugliness charting a course to the dark horrific heart of the human condition. The terrors of everyday existence are laid bare in this eerie collection of short fiction from the twisted mind of Todd Keisling author of the critically-acclaimed novels </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A Life Transparent</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> and </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Liminal Man</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Travel between the highways of America in The Otherland Express where a tribe of the forsaken and forlorn meet to exchange identities. Witness the cold vacuum of space manifest in the flesh in The Darkness Between Dead Stars. Step into the scrub of rural Arizona and join Karen Singleton's struggle to save her husband from a cult of religious fanatics in When Karen Met Her Mountain. Visit the small town of Dalton in The Harbinger and join Felix Proust as he uncovers the vile secrets rooted at the heart of Dalton Dollworks. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>With a foreword by Bram Stoker Award-winner Mercedes M. Yardley and illustrations by Luke Spooner </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Ugly Little Things</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> will be your atlas guiding you along a lonely road of sorrow loss and regret. This is going to hurt-and you're going to </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>like</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> it.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Proudly represented by </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Crystal Lake Publishing-Where Stories Come Alive!</strong></p>