Magic Stories by Leo Daniel will certainly "wave its magic wand" on all readers with its powerful cast of characters, universal themes, and global settings. In sum, it's a creative and compelling book as riveting as a Kafka piece as it explores themes of love and loss, life and death, sickness and health, wealth and poverty, and more jazzy juxtapositions! It's profound and packed full of philosophy, wit, personification, and life lessons such as "Loneliness didn't choose him and it rarely chose people. People consciously or unconsciously isolate themselves and begin to live as bugs, in various corners and the margins of life."

In addition, "The House of Dead Souls" explores dysfunctional marriage, love, loss, childhood traumas, attachment issues, and even more! If you're a fan of the occult, classic literature, and psychology, just to name a few topics, you'll love this magical purchase.
"Seventy-two Gold Coins," too, beguiles readers with eloquent writing and heartfelt themes as you fall in love with Orphelin, Antonia, and Noah.

I absolutely love this amazing compilation. As an English teacher, a scholar, and an avid bookworm, I couldn't put it down. In particular, the author's sensational style in "It's My Fault" reminds me of Hemingway in his unforgettable "Hills Like White Elephants."
Daniel's metaphors are magical as exemplified in "For the first time he realized that death is a terrible tax collector, and that there are no exceptions to it."
He truly crafts a book of short stories that completely mirror real life and all of its beauty, ugliness, struggles, and triumphs.