A Short Story Collection by Silver Webb
A Hundred Shattered Stars
A young girl earns the toughened skin on the soles of her feet during a summer in the Rockies, and comes face to face with “The Lady of the Lake.” At the start of the AIDS crisis, a ballet dancer reckons with mortality in “The Last Death.” And a fading cinema heartthrob contends with Ol’ Blue Eyes, a cunning starlet, and his long-suffering agent, over a weekend in Palm Springs, in “Oh Yes, Dr. No.” A despised tycoon descends to the acid-rain layer of the city to visit the fortune teller and forestall his own death. A witch rides the Boston T with a raven on her knee. A lovesick crafter steals glitter to complete an homage to his favorite rapper. And somewhere in space, floating above all these Earth-bound characters, Tommy Stardust procrastinates on his follow-up novel, hiding in imaginings of that most perfect of decades, the 1970s, ignoring the odd spiders weaving a web in his spaceship…
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A Book Review of “Witch’s Garden”
A Book Review of Witch's Garden by Silver WebbHaving suffered some fatalities on my bookshelf last year (a glass of water on the top shelf dispatched many of my paperbacks as it fell), I’ve been wanting to plump up the “plant magic” section of my bookshelf. And to that end, I ordered Witch’s Garden on a whim, assuming that it was about, well, witches and their gardens. I was wrong about that, but delightfully surprised at what the book does contain. Published by the Royal Botanic Garden Kew,...
“A thousand years of echoed prayers, songs of light and sorrow, lifted around the ghost in the cathedral, flew away like birds fluxing to emerge from the depths of a cave. A scent of oranges, the faded hum of Mephistopheles. Then Quiet.”
- Silver Webb, "Stained Glass" from A Hundred Shattered Stars
