“The Coward Files” by Ryan Arnold
by conundrum
The enchanting tales of The Coward Files encompass a world where people find themselves in everyday situations, like licking hardwood floors or stabbing a helpless squirrel with a stick or partaking in a wild vigilante cock-fighting shakedown.
Let’s just say the content of these eleven stories is amazing and will make you a better, wiser person. If it doesn’t, we suggest purchasing another copy of the book and trying again.
Everyone is a coward. Spiders, heights, failure, love — we’re all afraid of something. Not Ryan Arnold, though. He’s not afraid of anything. Okay, maybe he is afraid of one thing. The expensive, low-profile lawsuits that will inevitably bankrupt the publisher upon release of these stories.
“Snappy, wry, lurid and surprisingly tender stories. With writerly legerdemain and with great humour, Ryan Arnold makes an exhilarating debut. The cast of characters in The Coward Files will lurch and lick and cringe and chip their way into your sense of what’s new in fiction.”
– David McGimpsey
Ryan Arnold is a Vancouver-based writer. His stories have appeared in Matrix and Career Suicide. Most recently he has been a weekly entertainment columnist for The Globe & Mail.
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I bought this book at Expozine and it’s just one of those books you can carry around and read a story every once and again and re-read a story whenever you have a spare 10 minutes. When surrounded by people in a casual environment, reading out a story from this book will make people like you better for sharing, tried and true, so for social purposes, this book is a must!
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