DORAS CURSE AND OTHER STORIES

David Beard has been drawn to short fiction throughout his very literary life. With Dora&rsquo,s Curse and Other Stories he pulls together a collection of over a dozen of his favourites. In the cover story, a tribute to James Joyce set in Paris, Dora, a devoted mother, places a curse upon Jack, her profligate husband. In &ldquo,The Story That Couldn&rsquo,t Be Told&rdquo, the narrator finds himself drawn to memories and to stories