Voices in My Head is a vivid and inventive collection of short stories written by Susan Lynn Solomon. Ryan survives the First World War where his childhood friends Nick and Charlie perished. In 1804 England, Maggie awaits judgement for a crime she did not commit. In the marshes of Bayou LaFit, Marie teaches her daughter Maudie the ways of a Cajun wife. Across the street from the Episcopal Church, little Emily wriggled through a window of an abandoned house where the ghost of its murdered owner is believed to roam around. And Judith James, a budding mystery story writer, is forced to remember a double murder she witnessed fifteen years ago. These and four other stories complete this collection where Solomon channels ghosts from the past into nine short tales that explore the power of memories that tend to grow with time rather than fade to oblivion.

“It’s a dream, that’s what,” Ryan mumbled. “Can’t be nothing but a dream,” writes Susan Lynn Solomon in her short story collection, Voices in My Head. In nine fascinating short stories, Solomon takes us on a brilliant journey into the unexpected. And displaying a mastery of the imagination and a keen understanding of the complex human mind, she brings to life varied characters that strangely seem all too familiar. Her protagonists are beholden to the past even as they struggle to make some sense of their present lives. Sometimes stoic, sometimes explicit, the dialogues hide deeper running currents. But what is most captivating about this short story collection is the persistence of memory that is always on the periphery, directing the characters to the brink of insanity, hope and redemption. Voices in My Head is definitely a book you cannot afford to miss!

Voices in My Head by Susan Lynn Solomon is a collection of short stories that provide us with a wide range of characters and events. Voices in My Head contains short stories that deal with basic human emotions, life, death, mortality, hope, and sometimes just mundane everyday occurrences. In short, the book is a medley and mix of emotions, people, and events, and each story is quite different from the rest. Although the stories themselves cover a broad range of life events and circumstances, yet there is an underlying prevalent universal theme of hope and the fact that sometimes life goes on. It is a good reminder of how short life is and sometimes it is best to take it as it comes.

Voices in My Head by Susan Lynn Solomon is written in a clear, engaging tone that makes the stories flow easily. Each can be read independently in any order and, indeed, they are all so different from each other that the best approach might be to pick one that seems most appealing and start from there. I enjoyed the theme of hope in the book, which essentially keeps people moving, even after death and reminds us that as long as there is hope there is life. Another nice thing about the book is that the length of each story is neither too short nor too long, which keeps reader interest alive. With a few twists and turns and some unexpected surprises, Voices in My Head by Susan Lynn Solomon is a good collection of short stories that anyone would enjoy reading.