Slightly peculiar love stories - Penelope Todd

At long last (oh, I was such an optimist thinking Valentine’s Day!) the Slightly Peculiar Love Stories are launched. Our writers from New Zealand, Argentina, Israel, Hong Kong, the US, and the UK have filled the cup of love to overflowing with their slightly peculiar tales. (I suppose all love stories might be a little odd; the heart’s course seldom runs smooth.)   The stories I’ve chosen paint a grand mandala of experience and circumstance: love appears and disappears; it yearns after an old flame or a new planet; it dares to declare itself, or to wait for the right one; it aches in the head, the heart, the groin, and all over. Love is characterised in the curve of a hip, in the folded corner of a page; it fondles memories or fast-forwards into fantasy or fetishism, even psychosis. It falls for unlikely people and suffers fits of jealousy … You’ll read of love in a time of war; late, old love; love left too late; and mysterious new love that demands a leap of trust. A couple of stories poke into dark corners where love is whittled to a sliver of hope or a single compassionate act. Whimsical, intense, pensive or amorous — in SPLS you should find a story for every mood. Find out more about our eclectic and talented authors, the famous and the daisy-fresh,  on the Rosa Mira Blog.