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Wound Ballistics

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This hard cover edition is 144 pages and contains 15 gripping tales of relationships between men and women. I don't understand Kim Hughes' review on this book as I found each story satisfying. Steven Manners writes lean; there's no fat to trim off the meat. Kim Hughes talks about more plot. What is she talking about? The reader will decide in his own mind what really takes place.

My mind's eye enjoyed the stories as Manners does not over describe anything. But the reader sees everything in his own head. The stories are dark, gripping tales of human emotions. Sometimes they are chilling and they made my blood curl in anticipation, expectation, and letting my mind go free.

This book is exceptional and any of the short "short stories" could be made in to short films that would please any director.

Wound Ballistics is an awesome, albeit short journey into failed human relationships and the dark thoughts that accompany them. The 15 pieces of short fiction often leave you gasping for more, and invariably leave you saying OH MY GOD! The story Mouse is a phenomenal look at a relationship that rivals Timothy Findley in its ability to place the reader inside the fragile mind of a spurned lover. Manners uses an excellent narrative technique to illustarte how and where people come together and fall apart.

The 15 stories are like a brief summer fling, passionate, shocking, oddly satisying and yet you still want more.