Demons - A collection - eBook

Do not tell yourself that demons are not real, because the same argument would also prove you not real. Our identities are conventions that we share with those who know us, representations of bundled emotions and memories strung together in linear formats with narratives we construct after the fact and in justification of feelings that come from places deeper than words. If you confine your identity to names assigned at birth and roles imposed by adults on the child that you were, then you risk shattering your own identity in dangerous ways.

In the Demons collection, Kira Leigh has shared a very personal vision of these phenomena which conventionally are called demons, witches, ghosts, and fiends. While diverse in genre and tone, these stories have in common that they have protagonists who discover things in themselves which are dangerous and powerful. Some of these stories seem clearly metaphorical, but at least one is autobiographical. All of them are powerful in their honesty, and share messages of hope and warning at the same time.

Read these stories, please. Take them as you will. Here, may you find sources of your own power. May you take from them encouragement to meet the dark and powerful parts of yourself and learn to love them as they will love you.

K. Leigh reminds us that beyond their unique and fascinating world building of the Constelis Voss series and it's related titles, they are capable of spinning up fantastic tales ranging from the fantastical to the supernatural. While I had a particular fondness for the comedic horror of a tech support guy turned vampire in Fangs, other stories such as The Vodnik's Carmine and The Rot Doe captured my attention with beautiful poetic prose and the deep underlying message of living despite the horrors of reality (and fiction). Demons is a gorgeous collection with something for everyone in the science fiction and horror spheres. I was so engulfed in each story while reading on my daily bus commute to work, I missed my stop on two separate days! I cannot recommend it enough.