A Romance in Twelve Parts

A Romance in Twelve Parts is a Faction Paradox short story collection from Obverse Books. Cover art is by Lawrence Burton and depicts the skull of a panda.

Contents

 * Storyteller by Matt Kimpton
 * Gramps by Jonathan Dennis
 * Mightier than the Sword by Jay Eales
 * Now or Thereabouts by Blair Bidmead
 * Nothing Lasts Forever by David N Smith and Violet Harrison
 * Library Pictures by Stuart Douglas
 * Holding Pattern by Scott Harrison
 * The Story of the Peace by Ian Potter
 * Print the Legend by Daniel O'Mahony
 * Tonton Macoute By Dave Hoskin
 * Alchemy by James Milton
 * A Hundred Words from a Civil War by Philip Purser-Hallard

Blurb
‘What’s that? Did I hear you ask what romance has to do with anything, little Cousin? You do surprise me. Why Romance is Story itself, nothing less than that. Romance is the tale with which a cunning man winkles out a widow’s secrets and an honest one breaks his beloved’s heart. Romance locks us away and sets us free, brings us great pleasure and also great pain, is the thread which binds all other stories together. Dear me, little Cousin, I expected better of you…’ — Godfather Valentine, Dresden, 1928