A Web of Black Widows
Cover art by Glen Chadbourne.
In these six provocative tales, Scott William Carter takes the reader on a journey to places where love and loss intersect: a grieving tattoo artist makes a cross-country trip with a pregnant woman on the run from her disturbed husband... a mysterious artist finds a woman washed up on the beach and feels compelled to paint her... a young man who made a disastrous choice in wife is forced to crash weddings with his ghostly bride so she can remain on Earth...
Reading these and three other stories, you will be intrigued, moved, and troubled as Carter's clear and engaging prose takes you on a guided tour of the darker corners of the human psyche. But as he writes in his introduction, "There's hope in there, too. There has to be. Otherwise, why write at all?"
Carter's first novel, The Last Great Getaway of the Water Balloon Boys, is due out from Simon and Schuster in 2010. His stories have appeared in Asimov's, Analog, Realms of Fantasy, and other major publications. Buy this showcase collection – which contains four all-new tales and two reprints – and get a firsthand look at a writer on the rise.
Contents:
- Introduction
- A Web of Black Widows
- The Woman Coughed Up by the Sea
- Black Lace and Salt Water
- She’s Not All There
- Front Row Seats
- Static in a Still House
Scott William Carter
Scott William Carter has been a storyteller since the age of seven, when his second grade teacher published Sucked Into Zaxxon, the riveting, six-page adventure novel that recounted the exploits of a couple of kids transported into an arcade game. Although nothing he has written since has quite given him the same level of satisfaction as that single edition book made of cardboard, orange fabric, and clear tape, he has never stopped writing. He has sold over three dozen stories, to such places as Analog, Asimov's, Ellery Queen, Realms of Fantasy, and Weird Tales, as well as to anthologies by Pocket Books and DAW. Recently he has turned his attention to novels – even ones longer than six pages. His first novel, The Last Great Getaway of the Water Balloon Boys, is due out from Simon and Schuster in April 2010.
PS Showcase
PS Showcase is a series of short story mini-collections from some of genre fiction's best up-and-coming writers.
Publisher: PS Publishing.
PS Showcase consists of eleven books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
