Julianne Smith

Their Dark and Wild Sides Julianne Smith

Fantastical creatures dancing through a young girl's head. A creeping fog enveloping a town. Forces lurking just outside the backyard. Each protagonist finds themselves face-to-face with powers they can't quite understand, which forces them to grapple with their place in a world that doesn't always want them there. They forge relationships in times of quiet and strife, balancing and growing as threats encroach on every side. Whether they are experiencing truth or reality is never quite as important as the reader may originally think. Strands of Southern Gothic twine their way through rich magical realism landscapes in Smith's debut collection of short stories.