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Bloody Summer

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Bloody Summer

By: Carmen Maria Machado
Narrated by: Frankie Corzo
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What do children know that adults can’t begin to believe? The answer is hidden in plain sight in this haunting short story by the bestselling author of Her Body and Other Parties.

Tiger, tiger, burning bright, in the forests of the night. In the town of Never-Again, Pennsylvania, this hand-game song contains a history—centuries of inexplicable tiger sightings. A researcher arrives to write yet another academic paper about the well-studied town, called “Big Cats in the Children’s Hand-Games of Never-Again, Pennsylvania.” Nobody expects to find new clues—but, years after a scene of unimaginable violence, the truth about this childish chant is about to come out.

Carmen Maria Machado’s Bloody Summer is part of Trespass, a collection of wild stories about animal instincts, human folly, and survival from award-winning, bestselling authors. Read or listen to each in a single sitting.

©2022 Carmen Maria Machado. (P)2022 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Anthologies & Short Stories Fiction Genre Fiction Horror Magical Realism Short Stories Fantasy Scary Magic Game
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IN THIS BOOK BY CARMEN MARIA MACHADO, A TIGER IS THE RUSE OF A MYRIAD OF ASSASSINATION ATTACKS IN PENNSYLVANIA. FRANKIE CORZO NARRATES BLOODY SUMMER.

BLOODY SUMMER

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Tigers in Lackawanna county? Seriously? One of my brothers lives there and has never shared a sighting. Heh. This was brilliantly written. Ms Machado is a new to me author. Her writing style is witty and sardonic. I've fallen in love instantly. I will be diving into her oeuvre. Free with Prime Reading.

Bloody Brilliant!

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I found this to be very interesting, and well written. Good job on the narration too. I remember playing a couple of those hand games as a little kid. I had no idea that they, or some actually had some meaning. Thank you.

Very Interesting Story

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I loved the way this was written. Like Tiger King meets It. The story focuses on tiger in captivity, children & a series of horrible events across the years.

Solid horror set in a small Amerocan town

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This is truly original, weird in the best sense of the word, a fictional tale about "true" events that sounds like a real nightmare.

Haunting original story

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I liked the multiple layers of the story it was well written and well read good job

Bloodshed

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I was at the edge of my seat listening to this story. The ending was predictable but I still liked it.

Thrilling

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I wasn't crazy about this. Great concept for short story and I liked the interview portion format. But not crazy about the execution of it all. The interview makes you feel like it's a true story. But the first half is like having dreams that make no sense and are about nothing. Could've been better. It did make my mind wonder of possibilities on why the children tigers would attack. With what was going on with some. It was a lot like popular urban legends that really scare you. Great for Halloween.

the narrator was wonderful

disjointed but good in some places

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I didn't care for this short story. However I thought the narrator was good. I would like to hear him in a regular audio.

didn't enjoy

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One of the worst stories in this collection. Also, Frankie Corzo has a methodical, robotic cadence to her reading with the same ups and downs for nearly every sentence that I find quite distracting. Disappointing.

Droning, uninteresting, and not the best narrator.

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