GET 'EM YOUNG, TREAT 'EM TOUGH, TELL 'EM NOTHING

Dion Graham and Sophie Amoss narrate a short story collection overflowing with examples of how savage nature, fate, and life can be. The thread uniting the 10 morally unsettling stories is the inevitable crumbling of any plan, the phenomenon that anything that can go wrong most likely will. From a guard at a military base who is unable to leave before the invasion of an unknown enemy to a hiker who is clinging to a cliffside, Graham and Amoss capture the dreamlike aspects of the stories and transform them into engrossing performances. Characters crackle with life, while the unusual elements of the stories--for example, a pterodactyl in Las Vegas, a cat living in a pond--sound both real and unreal. J.M.M. © AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine [Published: DECEMBER 2022]