Volchin & Other Stories

<p>VOLCHIN & OTHER STORIES</p><p>Selected short fiction by Ian Clark and Ian Clark writing as Clark Nida</p><p>Winning the NUF Short Story Competition Volchin was praised by Kingsley Amis for "showing the true quality of the novelist—and short story writer: imagination."</p><p><br />In these stories Nida takes us to the outer reaches of human experience from prehistory to the distant future.</p><p>A man caught between the wolves who raised him and the medieval monks who tame him... an Egyptian scribe with a clerical error that spells doom... a wood spirit in a caravan... a tramp... a sage... a family of Martians...</p><p>By turns unsettling and moving these are stories of acute existential struggle.</p><p>About the author:</p><p>Graduating from Keele University with a PhD in Pure Maths and a pocketful of prizes and commendations for short stories of an unsettling nature Clark Nida's career went on to be nothing if not diverse.</p><p>He has acted in pantomimes engineered software sold encyclopedias been a mental health nurse a police scientist and a senior academic. He has lived worked and travelled widely overseas in Europe Scandinavia and the USA (which as a resident alien living in five-star hotels run-down motels and way-out alternative communities he has seen more of than most Americans ever do).</p><p>He now lives in Whitby on the brow of Yorkshire’s Jurassic Coast with a virtual cat a pet geode and a 350-year-old ghost of himself.</p>