Cailey Blair

A Girl, a Peach, the Blackbirds and the Beasts Cailey Blair

"A Girl, a Peach, the Blackbirds, and the Beasts" is a novel written as a collection of poems. Following a car-wreck, a girl is mysteriously transported to a strange dreamland of monsters, where she finds herself on the bad side of a pack of wolf-monsters - the Wolves of the Deep. She races to avoid the Wolves, encountering haunted forests, eerie caves full of bats, rotting fruit orchards, stinking swamps, and much more. Along the way, she begins to feel as if she is becoming a beast, herself. Can she escape this strange land and its fearsome inhabitants, including the most terrifying beast of all - the Wendigo - with her humanity and innocence intact? The poetry varies in form and style, from strict narrative action to flowery description to abstract moods, creating a deliberately shape-shifting story about innocence, courage, hope, fear, and corruption. Incudes illustrations by the author.