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Nail and Other Stories ("Rebel Inc") (Paperback)
by Laura J. Hird (Author)
4.7 out of 5 stars  (3 customer reviews)

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Product details
  • Paperback: 195 pages
  • Publisher: Rebel inc.; New Ed edition (9 Mar 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 086241850X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0862418502
  • Product Dimensions: 19.5 x 12.8 x 1.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 247,993 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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In this collection of short stories: a ten-year-old boy uses Edinburgh buses to escape from his dysfunctional mother and her boyfriend; a retarded youth tries to join a female gang; a dead lesbian lover can't let go; and a British soldier loses the plot.

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Macabre tales and dirty little secrets, 15 Sep 2003
By Grady Harp (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nail and Other Stories ("Rebel Inc") (Paperback)
Laura Hird is a startlingly good storyteller. Whether all of her literary output will continue along the lines of these macabre and hauntingly strange stories remains to be seen. In this particular genre she is among the best. Her stories embrace the dark spaces of our night minds, our visualization of the ill-defined fears that populate the nightmares of reality and illusion, and she has an extraordinary ability to make these weird tales credible. There seems to be a running thread of exploring the possibilities of man's cruelty to man. She molds brief visages of young girls abusing a mentally challenged boy (not unlike the famous 'Lord of the Flies' story), brutality to animals, numbing revenge, pedophila, molestation, and near-extraterrestrial body invasions by growths on the hands and face. These stories may not be for the faint of heart, but Hird is a mastercraftsman at making these tales all seem like reportage. The one flaw in her writing is her tenuous ability to end a story: they often are left dangling like a half dead spider caught on our mind's brow. Some may find difficulty in reading her Scottish brogue manner of conversation, but try reading it aloud and you will discover how additive it is in thinking through the story.
This is a fine short story collection. One wonde