Sadler Truman is dying in Craig Wallwork’s To Die Upon a Kiss, a stylish noir wracked from beginning to end by beautiful prose and multifaceted characters. Multifaceted, as in at war with themselves, both desperately morbid and exultant. Truman is convinced his death is imminent because no one in his family has survived past the…
Peter Tieryas Liu is the author of Amazon best-seller,
Watering Heaven — which was long-listed for the Frank O’Connor Int’l Short Story Award —
Bald New World, and
The Wingless. He has a variety of work published in places like the
Evergreen Review, Gargoyle, New Letters, and
Rain Taxi. Follow him at tieryas.wordpress.com.