About Dark Little Bishops
Dalton Mallery’s second collection is filled with 14 short stories that starts off with a family whose name is worth more than their bank account while they quarrel over lineage and the right to sell their home after their father has just passed away. A small town sheriff who notices an invading species of fungi has covered the town and its source of drinking water with the fatal spore and a man, who is desperate to take care of his mother, goes to a prison where a doctor is volunteering his services, but the kind man has a dark secret. During the Black Plague as a woman is searching for her father’s stolen horn and finds an orphaned boy who she brings with her along the way. A con man schemes his way through a small town, charming a young woman to go on the run with her. A retelling of Sleeping Beauty that collects all different iterations into one singular dark tale. A young girl with a strong imagination thinks that a tenant in her mother’s boarding house has a magical typewriter. Caught in the home of her burglar victim who takes matters into his own hands, a teen girl is desperate to get out. In the future, an android falls in love with a wall-mounted device and tries to impress them. The transcript of a late-actor’s final interview with anecdotes and tragedy mixed together is printed the day of his death. A young girl that wants to learn witchcraft in the strict puritanical New England goes to desperate lengths to ensure the knowledge. Two groups of boys in a behavioral test designed to make them become violent and antagonistic towards each other ends in fatal consequences. A stark, southern gothic story about betrayal and murder at a freak show and finally, a brief and solemn encounter about one man who feels guilty for the death of his friend’s son while helping as a ranch hand.
With more mastery this time around, his stories stand like Dark Little Bishops, all in a row ready to tell their tale.
Buy the book, and follow the author on social media: [Read more…] about Dark Little Bishops