Short stories: review

The Direction of Scarlet

My “Scarlet Yearnings” review, story by story: “The First Time She Met Her Father”.

Scarlet yearning — AI image by Nightcafé

I’ve briefly reviewed Scarlet Ibis James’ just-released book Scarlet Yearnings on Goodreads:

Britni Pepper's review of Scarlet Yearnings (The Scarlet Yearnings Collection Book 1)

Read these stories once, read them again. There are depths here. Depths worth exploring and savouring.

Long story short; I loved it. It is a collection of brilliant little gems packed into a hundred pages.

This is an example of storytelling done right. Scarlet has painstakingly packaged her themed stories into a coherent whole. In the days to come, I’m going to pull apart the stories that touched me most deeply. Not just fair in the feels but as examples of storytelling.

Scarlet Yearnings — image by author

The collection begins with a short-short. Four hundred words, each one carefully chosen. As a writer whose own…