THE RANDOM WRITERS
Some of the best writing fun I've had was dreaming up stories weird and wonderful enough to merit inclusion in The Random Writers anthologies. The Random Writers - who all have brains that sit aslant, in the best way possible - enthusiastically brought their own brand of oddness to a set theme for each anthology, creating a swathe of reinterpreted myths, beasts and histories.
Something Rich and Strange:
The Past is Prologue
A group of researchers open a door in the present day that has been closed for centuries – and should have stayed that way. In 1840s Ireland, starving children face desperate measures to avoid the crisis consuming the land. A visitor to 19th Century Japan learns what it takes to fan love to life. A girl struggles to rise above the walls that surround her in Georgian England. In 7th Century Britain, a scribe translates the true value of a legend. Fourteen surprising, moving and compelling tales, weaving the next steps in the telling of famous events and stories from Greek myth to English folktale, via fairy tales and real historical events. The second anthology from The Random Writers
Stalking Leviathan: A Bestiary of Tales
Twelve tales that go in search of creatures of myth, legend, and the spaces between the real and the imagined. From the overwhelming confusion of the Irish Civil War to the eerie expanse of modern day Bodmin Moor; from Elizabethan England to the skies above Persia, the Random Writers quest for an answer to the question – what is the nature of the beast?