I didn't really get into this one. The pieces of the story felt like they fell apart more as the story went on, instead of coming together. I guess that reflects whatever is going on with the main character, but it was not a satisfying read for me. ( )

Letters from Africa
Review of the Amazon Original Kindle eBook (February 24, 2022), released simultaneously with the Audible Original audiobook.

A Righteous Man is a historical fiction short story consisting of letters home by a colonialist missionary in Africa back to his fiancée in the home country. The missionary's encounters with locals start to take a dramatic turn with introduction of a group of "hyena men," who are spiriting away his Christian converts. The missionary himself sickens and we are not quite sure if what he is then seeing is an actual horror or a delusional side effect of his disease. By the end he is perhaps undergoing a metamorphosis / transmutation while Solomon, one of his aides, is becoming the master. An effectively ambiguous ending.

A Righteous Man is one of six Amazon Original Kindle eBooks/Audible Audio audiobooks released February 24, 2022 as part of the Trespass Collection of short stories which "Take a walk on the wild side. When nature gets up close and personal, it isn’t always pretty. A fallen tree sparks a poisonous feud between neighbors. A child searches the darkness for the gleam of a tiger’s teeth. A woman holds off a colony of oddly relentless prairie dogs. In unsettling stories that range from horror to magical realism, award-winning authors lay bare the secrets hidden in the land." ( )