Things We Say in the Dark

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The final part of the collection is Part 3: the Past, which touches on the primal fears that particularly haunt women and girls within a patriarchal society. The story I couldn’t shake from this section was “Watch the Wall my Darling as the Gentlemen Go By” which follows a horrific cyclical narrative of entrapment and abuse. It was very much like him, she thought, deliberate and equal when he gave. It was that fatherly instinct in him, spurred by habit and reflex to care for and indulge all of her. Can we ever say that we know what scares us the most? I am afraid of spiders and jenny-long-legs, but these are surface fears. Kirsty Logan is the author of three novels, three story collections, a memoir, two chapbooks, a 10-hour audio play for Audible, and several collaborative projects with musicians and visual artists. Her books have won the Lambda, Polari, Saboteur, Scott and Gavin Wallace awards. Her work has been optioned for TV, adapted for stage, recorded for radio and podcasts, exhibited in galleries and distributed from a vintage Wurlitzer cigarette machine. She lives in Glasgow with her wife, baby and rescue dog.

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If there's one thing Hermione Granger knows, it's that she simply doesn't have time to date. Draco decides to date her, anyway. Series I wrote the following review upon my first read of Things We Say in the Dark when I was mentally and physically in a far worse place and the experience was a confrontational and not quite pleasant one. Although I’ve only tangentially experiences some of the things this book covers, it was the raw honesty and harrowing imagery with which Logan describes some of her very personal fears that got to me. When the rest of the world gives up their search, Hermione Granger, an up-and-coming investigative journalist, is determined to do what they couldn’t: find him.The stories in Things We Say in the Dark are described as ranging from 'chilling contemporary fairytales to disturbing contemporary fiction.' The premise behind the collection is to examine fears. The blurb comments: 'Some things can't be spoken about in the light of day. But we can visit our fears at night, in the dark. We can turn them over and weigh them in our hands and maybe that will protect us from them. But maybe not.' For Logan, the expansive night allows a kind of freedom difficult to hold onto during the daylight, but it also serves to make the more creepy elements stand out. Logan has used quite typical tropes at times - abandoned buildings, a séance - but rather than becoming clichés, she makes them all her own. Rather than press him, Corrin instead chose to giggle to herself, beaming brightly while she masked her concern. Language: English Words: 325,876 Chapters: 41/41 Comments: 7,918 Kudos: 29,387 Bookmarks: 8,331 Hits: 1,987,072 Xander let out a long, drawn-out exhalation as he rolled, shifting beneath Corrin so they faced each other. Their bodies now pressed against each other, their silhouettes almost made something of a heart shape. “What do you think?” He flashed her a wan smile, reaching over to stroke her tousled hair in the same repeated motions as before. The fiction of Joel Lane – ‘To read Lane is to enter into an unforgettable, beautifully ambiguous landscape’

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Her chest burning, as if she drank a barrel of bubotuber pus, Hermione turned to him with narrowed, accusing eyes. "Malfoy...are we dating?" I ADORED this book. I am not a fan of horror stories but these are just the right kind for me. I jumped on this collection because of what an excellent writer Kirsty Logan is. And this was everything i hoped the short story collection would be. Creepy, unsettling, poking towards uncomfortable etc. This also makes it a very difficult collection to review.More than a year after the war, she struggles to find the right path for her life outside of Hogwarts. Still haunted by fear and loss, and faced with a new world that seems less promising than she’s always imagined, Hermione feels herself caught at a dead end — and the nightmares don’t help, either. The thought filtered through her mind as she felt the warm press of his breath, parting the kiss for a drawn-out second. Their lips hovered close to each other — breathing, barely touching as sweat beaded down their skin. Their eyes met once more, and in that shared moment, Corrin felt her lungs squeeze in hot air, caught in the lustful yet paternal gaze he reserved just for her.

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I wouldn't say they were particularly enjoyable but I was bored by them either. A. bit like one bad dream after another. Probably not the best read if you're feel 'out of sorts' or have run out herbal sedatives. The night before the fateful murder in the astronomy tower, Draco Malfoy approaches Hermione Granger in the library. Hermione has no knowledge of the mark on his left forearm or the catastrophic task he's been assigned, and Draco has no intention of asking for anyone's help. He is tormented by the dire future that is fast approaching, one he never asked for, and Hermione knows that something bigger, something dark, is coming. Thunder and lightning brew on the horizon, a storm rolling into Scotland that foreshadows the beginning of the end. But maybe, just for a night, they can find refuge in a much less severe storm -- each other. Language: English Words: 4,474 Chapters: 1/1 Comments: 10 Kudos: 253 Bookmarks: 24 Hits: 3,706 I’m doing good?” she pressed, softening her voice to an innocent whimper against their loud rutting.Full of magic realism and gentle horror, this is a book for fans of Salt Slow and The Doll’s Alphabet. The stories in Things We Say in the Dark are described as ‘feminist’, and largely stories told by women, telling of things that scare women. In Logan’s world, these things don’t have to be as big as ghosts, seances or bogey-men, although sometimes they are.