Angel of Manslaughter comprises a reissue of Cindy Rosmus' classic collection of short stories, originally presented by Fossil Publications. This master's gut-wrenching presentation, each a blow to the head, strips the veneer off fiction, her characters so vivid, the reader swallows hard with every description. She writes of reality with wide range while staying in the neighborhood she knows intimately: Moms and pops and best buds, their desperation, irony, sex and violence. Rosmus writes stark truth better than any today.The collection is illustrated by Coates Walker, the Emeritus of digital collage and mixed media art form, the perfect match for this author's fiction. Each image convey a powerful connotation of emotion, subversion, technology and the world in which we live.