Trysts: A Triskaidecollection of Queer and Weird Stories by Steve Berman
Title: Trysts: A Triskaidecollection of Queer and Weird Stories 
Author: Steve Berman
Tags: Anthology, Short Stories, Berman, Review, November, Fantasy, Scifi, MM Romance, FF Romance, M/M Slash, F/F Slash
Length: 164 pages
Rating: Good
Blurb: Cut and paste a voodoo doll made of magazine clippings…watch as a ouija board spells out your deepest secret…mourn the loss of your boyfriend while awaiting his ghost… listen to the ancient whisperings of a threadbare flapper dress…gamble for more than money on a Southern riverboat…renounce your citizenship to walk through a restricted area, rife with magic.
Experience passion and loss, all within the pages of this triskaidecollection - thirteen stories where the supernatural is as likely to doom as to save those that are drawn to its power.
Back to Berman, I have read quiet a lot of his works and as always I find that there are things I love and things that do not appeal to me so much. *chuckles* As it is with many things, I suppose. For me the high light of this anthology were the 'Fallen' stories. I have a weakness for interlocking short stories and so it was a real pleasure for me, upon arriving at the end of this book.
Beyond that I think that "His Paper Doll", was my second of the stories at the beginning of this book. There was something dark but still playful about this story that really appeals to me.
Beyond that, the stories were good but with a wild and varied landscape. If you like reading somewhat darker fiction and you like reading short stories. I think this is an anthology worth taking a look at. :) But so far there has only been one work with Berman's name attached to it that I haven't been able to get through. :)
Author: Steve Berman
Tags: Anthology, Short Stories, Berman, Review, November, Fantasy, Scifi, MM Romance, FF Romance, M/M Slash, F/F Slash
Length: 164 pages
Rating: Good
Blurb: Cut and paste a voodoo doll made of magazine clippings…watch as a ouija board spells out your deepest secret…mourn the loss of your boyfriend while awaiting his ghost… listen to the ancient whisperings of a threadbare flapper dress…gamble for more than money on a Southern riverboat…renounce your citizenship to walk through a restricted area, rife with magic.
Experience passion and loss, all within the pages of this triskaidecollection - thirteen stories where the supernatural is as likely to doom as to save those that are drawn to its power.
Back to Berman, I have read quiet a lot of his works and as always I find that there are things I love and things that do not appeal to me so much. *chuckles* As it is with many things, I suppose. For me the high light of this anthology were the 'Fallen' stories. I have a weakness for interlocking short stories and so it was a real pleasure for me, upon arriving at the end of this book.
Beyond that I think that "His Paper Doll", was my second of the stories at the beginning of this book. There was something dark but still playful about this story that really appeals to me.
Beyond that, the stories were good but with a wild and varied landscape. If you like reading somewhat darker fiction and you like reading short stories. I think this is an anthology worth taking a look at. :) But so far there has only been one work with Berman's name attached to it that I haven't been able to get through. :)