What makes this story so extraordinary is how none of it is actually ever extraordinary. Work is compelling because it’s just so average; this could be anyone’s life, but, in the masterful hands of Bud Smith, it becomes so compelling that you can’t put the book down.
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Bud Smith’s latest short story collection from Maudlin House is full of blatantly clear and enduring insight that at told through purposeful absurdity.
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In his new book, a dual nouvella, Sam Pink’s simple observations become metaphors or, perhaps, the basis for a new philosophy altogether.
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Elle Nash’s characters in her new book are neither good or bad, just twisted in a volatile threeway filled with obsession, manipulation and the ruins of love and sexuality.
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