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Declan Cosson was born in Paris, France in 1999. He moved to Ireland in 2001 where he has lived ever since.
He attended Hollypark school between 2005 and 2012. He then attended Clonkeen College between 2012 and 2018 and studied English, Media and Cultural Studies in IADT in Dun Laoghaire between 2018 and 2022.
Declan started writing as early as fifteen years old and has been writing ever since. Currently he is 23 years old. During his time in Clonkeen, he contributed short stories to the Clonkeen Anthology and also contributed short stories to Ink slinger's anthology at the Irish Writer's centre. In 2021, he published a short story collection called the "Collection of the Yearly Strange". "Blood and Gears" is Declan Cosson's latest work.
Reviewed by Pikasho Deka for Readers' Favorite
Treat yourselves to a captivating collection of eight short stories by Declan Cosson with Collection of the Yearly Strange. The book opens with Night of the Sandman, where a mother draws on her wit and courage to fight and fend off a monster trying to kill her son. In That's No Storm, a US military helicopter crashes over Normandy in the 60s, unleashing a storm of hornets that puts everyone's lives in danger. In the distant future, a human submarine crew fighting against the robotic regime comes across a prehistoric monster in the depths of the Atlantic Ocean in Bloop. Finally, Icarus follows a Solaran warrior and his friend as they march into battle against the reptilian Drakkar far into the future in the Alpha Centauri star system.
Using diverse settings, characters, and timelines, Declan Cosson ensures the book lives up to its title and tells eight fascinating stories bound to satiate your appetite for the eerie and the atypical. Collection of the Yearly Strange delivers absorbing short stories brewed with a swirling mix of genres, including sci-fi, horror, and fantasy. From monsters roaming the streets of London during the Great War to the intergalactic battles between different alien species in Alpha Centauri, the settings and timelines vary in extremes, seamlessly switching tonal shifts as you finish one story and start another. Overall, this is the perfect collection every short story reader loves. I thoroughly enjoyed it, and you should too.
