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Paperback | 18 October 2024

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18 Pages

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Conversational Therapy is a debut collection of challenging and unusual short stories and one-act plays.

In A KEEPSAKE MEMORY, a wrongfully imprisoned girl tries to escape the confines of an abandoned mental asylum and the treacherous hands of a psychotic doctor placed in charge of keeping her there. In ALLIGATOR RESORT, a SoHo prototype living a Bohemian lifestyle gets more than he bargains for on a family retreat to the great outdoors when a cloaked madman unleashes an army of lab engineered alligators on the slacker's family cottage. In PSYCHIATRIST'S PSYCHIATRIST, a distressed woman interviews with a new psychiatrist after her old one commits suicide. In THE LAST LAUGH, an excessively overweight comedian looks back on his arduous journey through life while presently navigating his claustrophobic condominium, the building's smallish elevators, and the lobby's makeshift comic stage.

These and many more exhilarating pieces full of suspense, biting social commentary and black humor from the darkest depths of human psyche await the reader. Unrelenting, surreal, and even occasionally twisted tales which, more often than not, have a ring of truth and relatability outside the falsity and the make believe.

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Praise for Conversational Therapy

"...both short stories and plays are quite sarcastic, socially engaged, and cinematic. Voro plays with the usual clich©s, molding them into something else while attaining an overall thrilling or surprising effect." - Jo£o Reis (Author of Bedraggling Grandma with Russian Snow, a novel longlisted for the 2022 Dublin Literary Award).

"Conversational Therapy sparkles with a dazzling literary exuberance that meticulously exhibits the grand overarching function of the stories we tell to serve as a refuge from the absurdity and pain of the world." - Phillip Freedenberg (Author of Americï»a and the Cult of the Cactus Boots: A Diagnostic).

"In contrast to many, many novels that discard form as a sleight of hand trick to dazzle and distract, Voro discards form so that his stories can breath and stretch and strike the reader between the eyes. Equal parts terrifying, liberating, and engrossing, Conversational Therapy: Stories and Plays is a promising debut and a clear sign that we can expect to be impressed by this author for years to come." - William M. Brandon lll (Author of The Exile The Matriarch & The Flood).

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