Serene Grace

SERENE GRACE, a short story collection from Matthew Atkinson, unleashes ten blows likely to stun you or make you flinch.

In these stories the lovely ladies of Atkinson's fiction face a vast enough host of enemies to cover many genres. Want something to draw your blade against? "Inn Quell," "The Treat," "A Trim for the Flowers," "This Fist," and whatever "Bugfight" is. Then shoot and slash and shoot again into heightened hyperreality in "The Steep Angle," "Cat Claws III," and "New Neon Eve." Then dial things down and face lust and loss in "Nut" and "A Puffy Star."

Life is brutal and complicated. When danger can lie around every corner and behind every shadow, you'll be better off if you can cultivate some SERENE GRACE.

For clarity, this collection includes these stories:

1. "Inn Quell"
2. "The Treat"
3. "The Steep Angle"
4. "A Trim for the Flowers"
5. "This Fist"
6. "Nut"
7. "Cat Claws III"
8. "New Neon Eve"
9. "Bugfight"
10. "A Puffy Star"