Robert J. Wiersema

Sandra Kasturi

Brian Page loves the forest behind his house, but it loves him too, and soon it will come for him.

The World More Full of Weeping

Maggie Gordon

Novellas can be tough to write, but Wiersema manages the balance of a great story that manages to have a satisfactory amount of development in a limited word count. The World More Full of Weeping is about spending one's childhood in a forest, and the scary things that lurk within. Brian Page is fascinated by the living world. It is certainly less draining and complicated than navigating his parent's divorce. He spends more and more time in the forest until one day he disappears. When his father calls in the search and rescue team, he is reminded by an older chap on the force that he too once got lost in the forest, but came back? Where did he go? What happened to him? Will he get Brian back? The story's ending can be seen as horrific or oddly beautiful depending on whose perspective you wish to take. However, regardless, it's a hauntingly beautiful tale about curiosity and choices.

The World More Full of Weeping

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