The World More Full of Weeping

I’m going to try my hand at a review. Robert J. Wiersema may weep at the incoherency of this attempt at his book, “The World More Full of Weeping”, but here we go anyway. Published by the independent house ChiZine Publications out of Toronto, the story is just 76 pages, plus some notes and acknowled......more

The World More Full of WeepingThe World More Full of Weeping by Robert J. Wiersema I picked this up based on the title, a reference to a Yeats poem, "The Stolen Child." The World More Full Of Weeping falls somewhere between a long short story and a novella. The story follows a young boy from a fractur......more

A simple little story. A boy goes missing in the same woods that his father went missing in as a child. Light fantasy. It was entertaining.......more

This creepy little book is part horror story and part fairy tale. A divorced dad, Jeff, lives with his 11-year-old son Brian in rural British Columbia. Their home sits next to a forest which Brian spends all of his free time exploring. One day Brian goes missing and from that point forward we see th......more

I don't want to give too much away; the story is short, precise, and nary a word wasted with an economy of prose that should be taught in schools (I should take the course, definitely, oh yes indeedy do). Wiersema crafts an evocative yarn of tragedy and magic, very similiar in tone to the recent Tim......more