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Today, Carla E. Dash joins us and reads an excerpt from her upcoming collection Monsters and Other Tales of Humanity. Our audio series "The Authors Read. We Listen." was originally hatched in a NYC club during BEA back in 2012. It's a fun little series, where authors record themselves reading an excerpt from their own novels, in their own voices, the way their stories were meant to be heard.
Carla lives in Braintree, MA with her husband, children, and cats. She teaches middle schoolers, procrastinates via video games and anime, and occasionally buckles down and writes.
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Releases July 8, 2025
Collection | Horror | Dark Fantasy
Click on the soundlink below to hear Carla reading a snippet from her collection.
Revealing
both how terrifying and how heroic individuals can be when untethered from
relationships, Monsters and Other Tales of Humanity portrays the ways people
cope with loneliness. A woman is haunted by Death, who progressively resembles
her drowned fiancé. A child seeks beauty in a handsome stranger’s greenhouse
and holds out hope for a savior. A woman’s husband is murdered by police, and
her monstrous children enact a bloody revenge. A negligent mail carrier
believes stars are disappearing from the sky, heralding the annihilation of the
universe. A video game character’s dissonance with the actions he must perform
precipitates a choice that could destroy his world. Speculative and lyrical,
these stories explore the human need for connection and how the lack of ties
warps lives.
Purchase your copy here: Meerkat Press | Bookshop.org | Amazon
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