“The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.”
W. Somerset Maugham
When I released Walden and Hyde (and Other Short Stories) in 2016, I made three stories available for the public to read: the bagel, the fool, and the lucky. As a matter of fact, you can still read each of them here:
I picked the three for different reasons. Bagel was the sweet story about love and fairies. Fool was the sad story about family and poverty. Lucky was the scary story about mankind and the supernatural. Each represented a different facet of Walden and Hyde.
If three stories aren’t enough for you, you can download your own copy of the entire book for free.
Did you know that Walden and Hyde is the partner book of my novel I Killed My Friends and It Thrilled Me? The characters from the novel debuted in Walden and Hyde, since it was released a year earlier. You can read one or the other and still get a complete experience of the stories. You don’t need to read Walden to prepare yourself for the novel. You don’t need to read I Killed My Friends to get a sense of closure with the stories in the anthology.
If you don’t have your copy of Walden and Hyde, what are you waiting for? Tomorrow is the weekend. You’ll have something new to read.
Header photo by Andrea Piacquadio from Pexels.
Xeno Hemlock 
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