Expect the unexpected in Daniel Bryant’s Rerouted, a collection of linked short stories in which myth, mirth and mayhem are never far away.
A postal worker confronts the supernatural after he is assigned a cursed route near an abandoned tannery. An attempted robbery goes awry when dimwitted thieves decide to knock off a coffee joint ... before it opens for business. Touring musicians experience uncomfortably close encounters while on the road in Northern Ontario. Serial killers and shape shifters are the least of their problems. Bad song writing—that’s the real elephant in the room.
These and other stories form a linked narrative in which the mysterious Benny Tak appears and disappears. Is he a cipher? Some insidious background performer who shows up in everyone’s personal narrative? Either way, he is ready for his close-up—with lines.
Eerie and at times otherworldly, the darkly comic tales in Rerouted take unexpected detours, exploring what happens when plans change, things get weird, and fate gets rerouted.