Fables & Fairytales

“Sally Bayley’s fable WORM IN THE BUD plunges the reader suddenly & without warning into almost physical, tropical proximity to her characters. The ending is vertiginous and places, like the pigs head on a stick in LORD OF THE FLIES, all the unspoken, stifling venality that has come before making it as necessary and inescapable as fate. Astonishing.” (Stephen Romer, poet, critic). Order here: https://www.thenewmenardpress.com/copy-of-jugoslovenska-kinoteka

“I have always admired the way Sally weaves history into the smallest objects. In Worm in the Bud: A Fable, her characters all seem to have their hands covered in the dust of history. The unsettling thing is that they mistake it for powdered sugar. They inherit violence in beautiful forms and call it refinement. Intimacy and violence are so tightly entwined that the pain of separating them might tear almost anyone apart, yet in Sally’s hands this pain is rendered with an astonishing lightness.”(A student of Sally). Click here for full review.