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Ben Walter is an award winning writer of stories, essays and poems. He is the fiction editor of Island magazine and is joining me today with his debut collection of short stories What Fear Was.

What Fear Was takes the reader through a diverse set of landscapes and into strange yet familiar spaces. From our relationship to the natural world to natures barely withheld disdain for our mistreatment, and abuse. This collection is a surreal exploration…

What Fear Was constantly challenges our sense of where we fit in the world we too-often think we own.

Ben Walter joins Andrew to discuss his debut collection of short fiction What Fear Was...

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