REVIEW: UNQUIET DREAMS by K.A. Laity

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Between waking and sleep, they wait.

Unquiet Dreams is a collection of speculative short stories by mistress storyteller, K.A. Laity.

“Kate Laity’s Unquiet Dreams is the long, deep plunge in the coldest quarry in the woods; the lingering look under the rotting wood at all the writhing life there; the stare into the abyss until one realizes something is staring back.” ~ S. R. Bissette

K.A. Laity's collection of short stories, Unquiet Dreams, runs the gamut from the fantastical with dragons, demons, and changeling to mandrake anthrax to computer murder games that are all too real.

If these stories come from K.A.'s dreams, it's no wonder that her sleep would be unquiet. The unifying theme is that every story leaves you with a feeling of "unquietude," a thankfulness to look up and see the familiar around you. She has the ability to draw you into the darkness she writes.

Not that the stories are depressing--there are some worlds I would love to revisit such as the one featured in "Lachrymae Draconis." However, there are more that you do NOT want to read just before going to bed--you have been warned.

The way the stories are arranged, you never know which way you are going to be heading when you start a story--so every story is a new adventure. This is my first book by K.A. Laity, but it definitely will not be my last.

About the Author:

K. A. Laity is the award-winning author of Rook Chant, Owl Stretching, Pelzmantel and Unikirja, a collection of short stories and a play based on the Kalevala, Kanteletar, and other Finnish myths and legend, for which she won the 2005 Eureka Short Story Fellowship as well as a 2006 Finlandia Foundation grant. With cartoonist Elena Steier she created the occult detective comic Jane Quiet. Her bibliography is chock full of short stories, humor pieces, plays and essays, both scholarly and popular. She also writes romance as C. Margery Kempe and Kit Marlowe.

K.A. Laity loves hearing from her readers.

Find K.A. Laity online at

Website – http://www.kalaity.com
Facebook – http://www.facebook.com/k.a.laity
Twitter - https://twitter.com/katelaity
K.A.’s Blog – http://www.aknifeandaquill.wordpress.com