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'Tiddley Trail Stories' is a collection of short tales of dark humour, irony, karma, and vivid imagination-great ingredients that make for a delicious read. As acclaimed novelist, short story writer and playwright Reva Leah Stern says: 'Tiddley Trail Stories' range in emotional temperature, from chucklingly naughty, to shiveringly shocking, to pleasantly vengeful. None of the stories in the book are predictable or passive. These unique and eerie tales will keep the reader engaged and agog from the beginning to the end.""The stories will delight the adventurous who thirst for the days of Rod Serling and Alfred Hitchcock. This is a wonderful collection of imaginative writing - without reason and without logic.

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Bala Menon's 'Tiddley Trail Stories' is a mad, roller-coaster ride of wildly imaginative fiction. Menon's vivid writing pulls the reader into the lives of both ordinary and extraordinary characters, as they struggle to navigate nightmarish scenarios worthy of 'The Twilight Zone'. Readers of this taut, short story collection are taken on a bumpy, ironic and unforgettable ride, sharing the journey with a throng of crazy characters, including vengeful spouses, corrupt coffee connoisseurs, greedy in-laws, mad dogs and hikers, reincarnated murderers, hell's grannies, deranged bus passengers and shape-shifting homeowners from the past. Blending and bending genres, ranging from science fiction, magic realism, horror and suspense, Menon mixes the off-beat, the dramatic and the horrific in one highly readable and darkly humorous collection. "" - David L. Tucker: filmmaker, author and professor emeritus. ------ ""If you like your coffee black and bitter, your stories on the weird and wild side with more twists and turns than a Canada's Wonderland roller coaster, this collection of short stories by Bala Menon is right up your dark and sinister alley. Nothing is as it seems. Nothing."" - Michael Joll, short story writer and novelist------Bala Menon's dark, devious, macabre and morbid story lines keep you on the edge of your seat waiting for twisted, disturbing and unexpected endings. His imagination is incredible and you can always detect a touch of humor mixed in with the twists and turns of his tales. His brilliant story telling will keep you engaged and wanting for more. If you like spooky stories this book is for you, if however you suffer from nightmares don't make it your bedtime reading.""- Konrad Brinck, story-teller and author of the acclaimed memoir 'It's just me' and the travelogue 'Travelations'.

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Bala Menon is a journalist/artist/and author. He began his career with India's premier English-language newspaper 'The Times of India', in Mumbai, and then worked as Deputy Editor at 'Times of Oman', the national daily of the Sultanate of Oman in Muscat. He was later Deputy Night Editor at 'Gulf news', the largest circulated English-language newspaper in the Middle East, published from Dubai. He has travelled widely in the Middle East and Europe and was until recently Editor-in-Chief at The Voice Media Group in Toronto, Canada. He has a popular blog - http: //jewsofcochin.blogspot.com. He is the recipient of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee Pin and Certificate from the Canadian Parliament for Community Service, Peel Regional Police Media Award, Rotary Club of Streetsville-Mississauga Certificate for Community Service. Twice awarded medals for 'Best Civic Affairs Reporting', Municipality of Muscat, Oman. Served multiple times as Juror for selection of winners in the Literary Category for the MARTYs Awards in Mississauga. Served on Discussion panels of the Mississauga Arts Council on publishing; and on Media Perspectives at the Indo-Canada Chamber of Commerce. Bala also won the First Prize in the 2025 Bernarda Smrdelj Short Story Contest of the Writers & Editors Network, Toronto.

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