Valley of the Dogs

Dark Stories

By: James Musgrave

Narrated by: Nikki Delgado

Silver Medal Award Winner in the Readers' Favorite Book Awards for Best Adult Fiction Anthology

IndieBrag Medallion Winner

Hollywood and Broadway are icons of the American Dream. But what happens to those who feed off that dream? Just as drug cartels have many underlings who must get paid along the journey to the addicts, so do the characters who need to be nourished by the luminaries who make up this star-studded world above us. James Musgrave’s collection of 11 stories, in many ways, addresses the theme of “star power”, but in a way that satirizes the stereotypical “Hollywood endings” in very unique and literary ways. This collection has a remedy for the past year’s traumas caused by a worldwide pandemic.

©2021 James Musgrave (P)2021 James Musgrave

Critic reviews

"With the publication of Valley of the Dogs, Jim Musgrave joins the ranks of George Saunders, Steven Millhauser, and Kevin Brockmeier at the heart of the modern American short story's second great renaissance." (Jacob M. Appel, award-winning short fiction author)