“Santa Rosa writer Dani Burlison’s ‘revenge fiction’ draws on many of her own experiences”
What a treat to talk with Austin Murphy from The Press Democrat about “Some Places Worth Leaving” and my long bumpy road into the writing world:
“The revenge in Burlison’s book takes various forms. In the deeply satisfying opener, a woman tortures a narcissistic English professor on a Lost Coast camping weekend by subjecting him to the silent treatment. The protagonist of another story, “Shark Week,” lets an unkind, violent lover paddle out on his surfboard at Dillon Beach, choosing not to tell him she’d just seen the dorsal fin of a great white. A sniper topples a government, circa 2045, in the grim, dystopian “Election Day,” which evokes Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale...”
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