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Soaking in Strange Hours - Poetic Prose at its best

December 27, 2021 by Joe in Spooky Reads

Joe is reviewing a short story by Erik Hofstatter!

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December 27, 2021 /Joe
Soaking in Strange Hours, Erik Hofstatter
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Punishment by Hope - Surreal Horror and an great journey

March 10, 2021 by Joe in Spooky Reads

Nim is a master swimmer floating on waves of wet hope. His penance is to swim and carry, but his heart is held onboard a grieving ship in the aquamarine prison of her eyes. She is his sentence and he is hers. Will a mysterious humanoid jellyfish reunite the star-crossed lovers?

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March 10, 2021 /Joe
Erik Hofstatter, Punishment by Hope
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Isidora's Pawn Packs a Punch in This Short Story From Erik Hofstatter

August 13, 2019 by Joe in Spooky Reads

Orrin is desperate to escape life’s crushing banalities. Enter Dores, a charismatic Spanish librarian he befriends on Instagram. With a gratuitous job offer on the cards, he travels to León and begins a night shift in a place where the broken and weary congregate in healing silence. The medieval library is painted with images of raw and deformed beauty, rivers of anguish, self-torment, lonely exile, and unexplained sorrows. As Orrin explores blackest shadows of the library, he discovers further paintings of dozen children riding a giant goat glowing with human vitality. He’s about to become Isidora’s pawn. You’ll see what she wants you to see...

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August 13, 2019 /Joe
Isidora's Pawn, Erik Hofstatter
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