Not too horrory ?
OK, how about:
Spirals and Demons and Lines ! Oh my !
/bleh

Not too horrory ?
OK, how about:
Spirals and Demons and Lines ! Oh my !
Voted for The Spiral. Downward Spiral by Nine Inch Nails was the first association for some reason.
Also, gratz on the new book!
Is there a common theme among the stories?
You're spoiling the fun for future English teachers who would be forced to make things up when explaining your works decades after you've passed and they're all famous works of literature.![]()
Short Stories by Kyriakos (simple)
Dissociation (i.e. from your surroundings)
Distance (i.e. of the soul from other souls)
Broken
Shattered
Exadherence
Untethered
Void
I like The Spiral and The Worst They Could
You seem quite sure about that. I've got PMs and email notifications dating back over 10 years, buried way down in various email accounts.CFC will be buried way too deep in bygone era web debris by then, no one will know what was said here![]()
Not unlike when Frank Herbert's novel Dune was first published. Some people thought he was trying to start a new religion, when in fact, that's the opposite of what he was trying to do. One of the major themes in Dune is "beware of the charismatic leader".Google will be their guide.
I took a college lit course on SCIENCE FICTION (easiest A ever) And one class early in the semester was reserved for Riverworld. The teacher gave us his interpretation of the series. As a class we kept copious notes. Which paid off in spades when Jose Farmer visited our class towards the end of the semester and we read back our teachers interpretation for him to comment on. He laughed for about 10 minutes, much to the embarrassment of our teacher. He said they were friends and he always found it funny that our teacher would always argue it with him. He had to keep reminding him that he WAS THE ONE THAT WROTE IT.