Aaron Polson

This is a short story collection featuring ghosts and many variations thereof. I didn't like all of the stories (I never like them ALL) but I did like most of them. The ones I liked the best were:

The Ox-Cart Man: an awesome piece of short fiction.

Special collections: You may want to rethink getting that tattoo!

Junk-Watch out for those old refrigerators!

Little Fingers-Playgrounds can also be dangerous.

Uncle Bobby-Maybe being a sex machine isn't that great?

The Sub-Basement-My favorite story in the collection. Why do people always go down into the basement? Especially when their child says they spoke to Grandpa there, even though Grandpa has been gone for 25 years?

Daddy's Touch-Beetles! Ewww! That's all I'm giving away on this one.

Aunt Tessie's Burden-You won't look at little glass jars the same way ever again.

All in all, I found this to be a great collection. There were very few typos or formatting issues. I'm looking forward to more offerings from this author, both on his own and in future issues of:[b:Introducing Penny Dreadnought, Insidious Indoctrination Engine of the Abominable Gentlemen|13181490|Introducing Penny Dreadnought, Insidious Indoctrination Engine of the Abominable Gentlemen|James Everington|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51JF9dWkb7L._SL75_.jpg|18361770]… (more)

I picked this book up over the summer when it was free.
Since I am a huge fan of the [b:Introducing Penny Dreadnought, Insidious Indoctrination Engine of the Abominable Gentlemen|13181490|Introducing Penny Dreadnought, Insidious Indoctrination Engine of the Abominable Gentlemen|James Everington|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51JF9dWkb7L._SL75_.jpg|18361770] issues and since Aaron Polson is one of the writers featured within, I figured this novel would be a shoe in to my favorites pile. I was disappointed.
The story itself would've been ok, if it were not for the misspellings, the missing words and some serious confusion trying to figure out who owned the Olds Cutlass. At first it was Ken and then later in the story it was Dan.
I had to struggle to finish this story. To be honest, I didn't care who lived or died. I really just wanted it to be over.
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What a fascinating anthology of Aaron Polson’s short stories. Each one presented an interesting take on some rather dark horrible thought no doubt some of us have found in our minds at one time or another…and then again…some of the stories presented new terrible thoughts for my mind to contemplate! Mr. Polson is a great story teller with thought provoking stories to tell. Thank you, Library Thing and Aaron Polson, for making this collection of short stories available to me to read and review.… (more)

We Are the Monsters by Aaron Polson is an intelligent - and disturbing - psychological horror that captures the 90s high school zeitgeist of Small Town, USA. Set in Kansas and firmly grounded in the relational reality of dysfunctional families and strained friendships, the novel also explores the fantastical boundaries of the mind - including the lies, self-deceptions, and irrational fears we have all experienced at one time or another. This is a mature read but not explicitly graphic or gratuitously vulgar. The horror is in the haunting images, ghosts, and, yes, monsters that inhabit the town...and our minds. I'd rate this 7 of 10 stars.… (more)