Conversation Pieces

Vol. 95 — Stone Martyrs

by Erik Hofstatter

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Have you ever written to ether? When pain was the only ink available to you? When envelopes were made of flesh?

Inspired by the folklore of Mother Shipton & The Rollright Stones, these are their unheard confessions. Thoughts addressed, but never answered. When only trees listened, when stones had feelings.

A collection of words their hearts never had the courage to say. Until now.

Advance Praise:

“If stones could speak, what stories would they tell? We learn the horrific answer to that question in Erik Hofstatter’s intriguing collection of dark prose poetry. Profundity mixes with vulgarity, the sacred with the profane, as the once-human Rollright Stones near the British village of Long Compton come alive to contemplate past conquests and atrocities. Sex and violence, passion and obsession, witchcraft and loss of innocence combine in this powerful, disturbing, yet strangely moving dialogue of forever-earthbound souls.”
 — Anna Taborska, award-winning author of
For Those Who Dream Monsters and Bloody Britain

“Hofstatter’s Stone Martyrs has the intriguing drama of ancient myth. Poetry and prose marry perfectly to create a dichotomy of dark and light, base coarseness and ephemerality. It’s not to be missed.”
 — Mercedes M. Yardley

ISBN: 978-1-61976-272-5 (13 digit)
Publication Date: Feb 2025
paperback 110 pages