Product Description

Get ready to expect the unexpected when you read this collection of chilling short stories

The short stories of Edging Past Reality will take you to the precipice of reason and then push you over the edge.

If you think you can always believe your eyes, and you're sure that what you believe is true, it's time to check your certainties at the door ... and start Edging Past Reality. In this collection of short stories, as you're warned in the introduction, ''the most common and familiar elements of life ... explode into a circus of horror.'' Imagine an inviting, lush meadow that turns shockingly deadly. A mirror that holds more than mere reflections. A trial where your life hangs by a call-in vote.

David Fingerman, a master of the unforeseen and unpredictable, will take you on a number of seemingly ordinary journeys and then smoothly veer off course, surprising you with twists and turns that propel you toward destinations that are not only unexpected, but often terrifying.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1115461 in Books
• Published on: 2008-11-14
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 263 pages

About the Author
David Fingerman has worked in the Hennepin County Court System for over twenty years. He now writes full time and lives with his wife in Minneapolis

Customer Reviews

Amazingly creative
Story after story begins with normal, likeable characters doing normal, every day things in this amazingly creative book of short stories, and ends with shocking - nearly always horrifiying - surprises. For sci-fi lovers, and even those new to the genre, this book will be a treat. Well-written and creative, it's a great holiday gift for those who like to read about the unthinkable.

Violence, Death, Destruction and Fun
Immersing yourself in short stories from David Fingerman's recently published book, Edging Past Reality, is like being in a waking dream where you cannot fight your way out of the fog of unconsciousness surrounding you until you wake with a chuckle to find feelings of dread replaced by joy. It's good to be awake, to be alive, and to appreciate Mr. Fingerman's vivid imagination and the quirky twists he gives to the ending of each story. Each one different and each a total surprise.
Imagine a young boy whose room is filled with "games of violence, death, and destruction that are fun for the whole family," and who has a new monster-toy filled with "MEGA GLOP." Try to imagine this toy, with its life-like glow in its eyes, in the hands of a child who will develop his own claim to monsterhood. Try. But I guarantee that you will not come close to the weird and creative imaginings of David Fingerman's mind as expressed in his stories, each one a delight for the reader who enjoys mystery spiced occasionally with the supernatural, and brought to a surprise conclusion by a master story teller.

Creepy!
David Fingerman scared me more than I like in the very first story of edging past reality. Reality? Ha! Fingerman left that behind in a hurry in this collection of stories beginning with a doll with sharp teeth and a nastier disposition. If you dare to read this book, creep ever so gently through it because the edges of reality are gone. You will immediately sink into a world of horror that apparently Fingerman loves and dares you to enter.