Lad Moore tells tales ... some
of them long, some of them short and some of them - by his own admission - pretty
tall. All of them re-create a world of recent yesterdays to set some folks to
rememberin' and others to dreamin'.
They're down home yarns
of East Texas and dazzling adventure stories set in the mysterious Far East,
they're of store-stove conferences and dark murders, of the good, the bad and
the ugly who've crossed his many paths.
Lad's writing has appeared
in countless journals and anthologies and Riders of the Seven Hills is the third
of his popular collections, each of which - although skillfully presented in
dozens of bite-sized chunks - leave his reader with that satisfying, well-fed
feeling of someone who's just devoured an epic novel.
His cast of players come
and go; sometimes with a character taking center stage, sometimes with him or
her merely in the chorus. Just as you'd expect in real life. But the creeping
result is real life people who grow familiar as the stories unfold, events that
are fully explored, and places that almost miraculously achieve solid form as
the pages swiftly turn.
Lad's short works take shape
like the tiny dabs of seemingly random color in an impressionist painting. The
colors combine to create a living landscape because the brush is held by a master
of his art. Now let's take the time to step back a little and admire the broad
canvas.
Read an excerpt from Riders
of the Seven Hills
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