'The Harder it Gets the Softer We Sing' Novella by Steven J Dines

Sometimes, no matter how great a writer’s talent, a story deflates through emotional turbidity. It wintles short of being elemental. Of being deemed necessary reading by our creative peers.

Yet there is something to be celebrated about Steven J. Dine’s novella: ‘The Harder it Gets the Softer We Sing’, published in Black Static, Issue 63. There is a quiet energy that draws you. Above all the action and alluring mystique we find tend to find in pulp fiction, it enthralls through its use of symbolism and ‘second story.’ Reading it through twice, the words audibly wrangle, signaling to readers that they’re mere guiding marks to the raw crux of the tale being told: a story filled with pain and self abandonment...

If you are interested in serious writing in the horror genre, then head on over to SFFWorld for the full review: The Harder it Gets the Softer We Sing Novella Review

Publisher: TTA Press; Cover Art by Richard Wagner