Another review on my book, Stories Between Us. Mahi has also released her own book of poems Kali In Conversation.
Here's what she had to say
Stories Between Us by Bissme Bissme Bissme
By Mahi Ramakrishnan (Instagram)
(Bissme S) is decidedly not for the faint-hearted. A collection of 18 stories written as an offering to the enigmatic Queen of Fire, with the writer’s very life hanging in the balance should she be displeased, the book plunges fearlessly into forbidden love, heartache, lust, and darkness. Bissme doesn’t flinch from the explicit or the morbid: same-sex desire is celebrated with the declaration that “two men making love is the most beautiful thing to watch in the world,” while justice is served in the most visceral terms - severed fingers fed to stray dogs. Mystery and the supernatural creep in from the first story, where the narrator googles a couple only to discover they have long been dead. Threading through all 18 tales is a quiet, curious motif: a unicorn, appearing in each story as a toy or an ornament, both fragile and fantastical against the brutality surrounding it.
Bissme’s writing reminds me of Charles Michael Palahniuk. I say this because of the same refusal to look away, the same taste for shock laced with unexpected tenderness, and above all, the same devotion to the sucker-punch twist. Like Palahniuk, Bissme understands that the most disturbing stories are also, somehow, the most human. Readers who have followed Bissme’s work through Doubt and Bitter already know to brace for the moment the rug gets pulled and Stories Between Us delivers that in abundance.
Well done buddy. Am already looking forward to your next book 
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