Mike Robertson

Casting Shadows: Short Stories Mike Robertson

This small collection of eightshort stories is an impressive anthology of distinctive stories told indistinctive ways by an author who cannot seem to settle on one particular typeof story or one particular style of writing. There is the magnificently moody and darkly apocalyptic Sky Blue Silence I with it nightmarefuture described in curiously deadpan way, the colourof fairy take whimsy of Eli Martin andthe Magic Duck, the fantasy satire of DreamZingers, the surprising mystery of MistakingPatricia and the intuitive though unpolished human dramas played out in Mutiny Over the Taking of Tea and Toastand the title story, CastingShadows. The story are short, easyto read, and will give the reader something to think about aside from the $20he or she just spend on the paperback.