Diamonds and Moths

Chance. Trickery. Magic. Mystery. Steve Wechselblatt’s Diamonds and Moths invites us into an astonishing world. A world not meant to be understood but experienced. A dentist alleviates the periodontic problems of the undead. A nun finds herself on a Japanese sex tour. A young couple in Siberia must make an agonizing choice when a geographically challenged stork delivers the wrong baby. A devious peasant proves he is never wrong. An aspen tree suffers heartache when its affair de coeur with a young boy goes terribly wrong. In his first short story collection, Diamonds and Moths, Wechselblatt explores the lyrical boundaries of flash fiction. Diamonds and Moths is inspired by the intellectual meta-fiction Jorge Luis Borges and the lyrical immediacy of Japanese haiku. Its fictional universe relies little on traditional storytelling. Diamonds and Moths engages the mind and stirs the imagination with a unique blend of irony and magic in a realm where only the impossible is real.