Guy Arthur Simpson
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A gentle horror story set in Nepal
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PAPERBACK: ONE OF "FOUR STORIES"
The swelling ambition of a teenage boy.

The gaping mouth of a black god.

Whose hunger is the greater?

mild horror story
3,500 words

"You’re like your uncle. What a sorry excuse for a husband I got. He was so skinny he ended up breaking like the lead in a pencil. The girls like a good rounded man, they always have.'
I stared at my aunt’s appallingly satisfied smile and wondered if my uncle Jyoti really had died by snapping in two. It might have been his only answer to his wife’s taunting disparagement: a single-minded hunger strike whittling him down to the dryness of a stick, until one day....
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  • Home
  • Books
    • All the books >
      • Novels >
        • Hoodwink
        • John Eyre
        • The Asturian Campaign
        • Citizens of the Night
      • Stories >
        • The Ministry of Flowers
        • El ministerio de las flores
        • Four Stories
        • Immig's Work
        • The Man Who Died
        • Parasite of Choice
        • The Sweet Teeth of God
        • The Life and Death Performance of Tony Bedowie
  • Readings
  • Travels
    • 1980s England
    • 1987 South America
    • 1989 USA
    • 1990 India & Nepal
    • 2000 Central America
    • 2007 Argentina
  • About
  • Contact