Step into the world that exists inside all our heads. There are no secrets, no taboos, just humans being human. This book opens the door to our innermost sanctum so we can all gawk at the odd, horrific, fantastic side of human's less spoken of nature. In this collection of short stories, you'll both laugh and cringe, maybe be left feeling violated or finally understood. Dive into the minds of humanity and view a world through gray-tinted glasses.
If women ruled the world there would be no war, but we would all have been aborted.
"Christy Leigh Stewart’s Loath Letters is a surprisingly emotional powerhouse of writings that reveal the author's quirky, often irreverent wit. With unexpected insight, she exposes the uncomfortable and pulls the lid off the acceptable. Artist Megan Hansen’s edgy, contemporary illustrations couple brilliantly with Stewart’s prose to make this a book that you just may find yourself reading more than once." -Lisette Brodey, author of Crooked Moon and Squalor, New Mexico
"Bold, broad, and beautiful. And pretty freakin' disturbing sometimes. The writing and art are somehow raw and refined all at once. I like it." - Kevin Shamel, author of Rotten Little Animals
"If Zen is a finger pointing at the moon, then Christy Stewart's Loath Letters are a finger pointing at the booger on your shirt. Only, there's no booger. And you have cancer. READ IT." - Jess Gulbranson, author of Antipaladin Blues
"Loath Letters is funny, angry, dark and honestly disturbing. Christy Leigh Stewart's words and Megan Hansen's illustrations play off each other with the terrible precision and glee of two cats dissecting a bird of paradise." - Bill Glover, author of Tearing the Veil
“Loath Letters takes us into the darkness that lives in humanity sometimes. A collection of short stories told from the teller’s point of view, it lured me into the psyche of those who could be bad or good, but essentially were human. No matter what emotion it drives you to, it will haunt you long after you are done reading it.” -Pamela K. Kinney, author of Haunted Virginia: Legends, Myths and True Tales and From Under the Moon: Spectre Nightmares and Visitations.
"Loath Letters is a fantastically naked book that wriggles under your skin. It’s akin to finding a hidden diary and absorbing someone else’s secrets although you know you shouldn’t. Rarely does writing feel so honest and fantastical at the same time. Congratulations to Christy Leigh Stewart for making me feel so delightfully uncomfortable." - Matthew Revert of A Million Versions of Right
"Stewart's bite sized, tweetsized fictional petit fours are great for those who appreciate Deep Thoughts with Jack Handey and the comedy of Steven Wright and Demetri Martin and Hansen proves herself an adept and fun illustrator. An attractive fun, sweet little package...not unlike it's naughty little vixen creators" - Garrett Cook author of Murderland Part 1:h8, Murderland II: Life During Wartime and Archelon Ranch
"It's a very bizarre collection. I read it as almost a series of confessions, some of them sardonic and funny (these were my favorite), some of them sad, some of them violent." - Andersen Prunty, author of The Overwhelming Urge, Zerostrata, Jack and Mr. Grin, The Beard, Market Adjustment and Other Tales of Avarice, Morning Is Dead and The Sorrow King
"Letters, voices, shouts of anger and cries of regret … each conveying short, dark and disturbing tales of rage, tragedy and horror … examples of what some humans are capable of." - John Walker, author of Wrath and Remembrance, Comparing Scars, Hitting Back, God’s Soldiers, Hank Shank VIII, Blood and Water, Backlash
"Christy Leigh Stewart is the O. Henry of transgressive lit." - Bradley Sands, author of It Came from Below the Belt and My Heart Said No, But the Camera Crew Said Yes!
Loath Letters by Christy Leigh Stewart
Step into the world that exists inside all our heads. There are no secrets, no taboos, just humans being human. This book opens the door to our innermost sanctum so we can all gawk at the odd, horrific, fantastic side of human's less spoken of nature. In this collection of short stories, you'll both laugh and cringe, maybe be left feeling violated or finally understood. Dive into the minds of humanity and view a world through gray-tinted glasses.
If women ruled the world there would be no war, but we would all have been aborted.
"Christy Leigh Stewart’s Loath Letters is a surprisingly emotional powerhouse of writings that reveal the author's quirky, often irreverent wit. With unexpected insight, she exposes the uncomfortable and pulls the lid off the acceptable. Artist Megan Hansen’s edgy, contemporary illustrations couple brilliantly with Stewart’s prose to make this a book that you just may find yourself reading more than once."
-Lisette Brodey, author of Crooked Moon and Squalor, New Mexico
"Bold, broad, and beautiful. And pretty freakin' disturbing sometimes. The writing and art are somehow raw and refined all at once. I like it."
- Kevin Shamel, author of Rotten Little Animals
"If Zen is a finger pointing at the moon, then Christy Stewart's Loath Letters are a finger pointing at the booger on your shirt. Only, there's no booger. And you have cancer. READ IT."
- Jess Gulbranson, author of Antipaladin Blues
"Loath Letters is funny, angry, dark and honestly disturbing. Christy Leigh Stewart's words and Megan Hansen's illustrations play off each other with the terrible precision and glee of two cats dissecting a bird of paradise."
- Bill Glover, author of Tearing the Veil
“Loath Letters takes us into the darkness that lives in humanity sometimes. A collection of short stories told from the teller’s point of view, it lured me into the psyche of those who could be bad or good, but essentially were human. No matter what emotion it drives you to, it will haunt you long after you are done reading it.”
-Pamela K. Kinney, author of Haunted Virginia: Legends, Myths and True Tales and From Under the Moon: Spectre Nightmares and Visitations.
"Loath Letters is a fantastically naked book that wriggles under your skin. It’s akin to finding a hidden diary and absorbing someone else’s secrets although you know you shouldn’t. Rarely does writing feel so honest and fantastical at the same time. Congratulations to Christy Leigh Stewart for making me feel so delightfully uncomfortable."
- Matthew Revert of A Million Versions of Right
"Stewart's bite sized, tweetsized fictional petit fours are great for those who appreciate Deep Thoughts with Jack Handey and the comedy of Steven Wright and Demetri Martin and Hansen proves herself an adept and fun illustrator. An attractive fun, sweet little package...not unlike it's naughty little vixen creators"
- Garrett Cook author of Murderland Part 1:h8, Murderland II: Life During Wartime and Archelon Ranch
"It's a very bizarre collection. I read it as almost a series of confessions, some of them sardonic and funny (these were my favorite), some of them sad, some of them violent."
- Andersen Prunty, author of The Overwhelming Urge, Zerostrata, Jack and Mr. Grin, The Beard, Market Adjustment and Other Tales of Avarice, Morning Is Dead and The Sorrow King
"Letters, voices, shouts of anger and cries of regret … each conveying short, dark and disturbing tales of rage, tragedy and horror … examples of what some humans are capable of."
- John Walker, author of Wrath and Remembrance, Comparing Scars, Hitting Back, God’s Soldiers, Hank Shank VIII, Blood and Water, Backlash
"Christy Leigh Stewart is the O. Henry of transgressive lit."
- Bradley Sands, author of It Came from Below the Belt and My Heart Said No, But the Camera Crew Said Yes!