By All Means by Tim Love – short stories on themes of change and of people transitioning between different states, both physical and mental.
This collection finds people in transit; between places, relationships, states of mind and different lives. Sometimes these are stories of moving on, leaving the past and the characters populating a point in personal history lingering in memory’s rear-view mirror.
At other times, these stories ruminate on lives only half-full and half-lived, where the characters are stuck forever in either first gear, or worse – in reverse, terminally pondering but never quite settling on a direction of travel.
These are gently tragi-comic stories laden with subtle, beautifully-observed everyday miracles and mistakes. Tim Love has an exacting ear for the voice of characters; he captures their travails and their unwitting shedding of truths and half-truths in irresistible style and in concise detail.
By all Means is published by Nine Arches Press.
Praise for Tim Love
“Tim Love wields words with the precision of a surgeon, or a sculptor. These stories are clever, poignant and memorable – but above all they are hugely generous.” – Vanessa Gebbie