Review: Eight More Tales From The Darkness
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 4, 2013
Eight new selections from the thugs themselves.  As with other Thuglit collections, it's still a better use of your time to read it then just about anything else would be. My five favorites are discussed below.The second story is The a Rightful King Of Wrestling by Chad Dundas.  It is precisely a story about a pro wrestler who billed himself out as The Rightful King of Wrestling.  It is told on the first person and that choice works as the reader gets to know the aging wrestler burdened with injuries, doctor's bills, and a child on the way.The Higher The Heels is by Patti Abbott, who is well known in crime fiction.  She has a smooth storytelling voice that begins with a well dressed realtor cruising a bar for a date.  It's not quite the cozy little tale you think it is.Cocaine Starlight by Isaac Kirkman is where this collection gets rolling.  Told from a teenage female crack dealer's point of view, Kirkman draws the reader into the despair, the hopelessness, the filth of the hood life.  It's well told and worth reading.Three Days Ahead by Caleb Ross is another gem.  This one has child abuse, torture, fraud, loneliness, and other assorted scars in it.  It's another tale of misery and the seamy side of the city.Nothing to Lose by David Summers is a tale about a young couple who, with the weekend coming, had nothing to party with.  Hell, why not cut out the middleman and go right to the source?  Why not, indeed?So what do we have here?  Drug addicts, losers, cheats, and other conmen.  Well worth your time.