“It’s hard to beat Aldridge-Morris’ trademark mix of gritty reality, humour and hope.”

Cole Beauchamp, New Flash Fiction Review

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“In twenty-nine flash fictions, Aldridge-Morris offers a master class on the form…Enough cannot be said about Aldridge-Morris’s ability to pin an era. She is simply a wizard of time-and-place vibe.”

DE Hardy, Claudine Literary Magazine

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“Particularly impressive is Aldridge-Morris’s use of setting details not only to evoke an era—those “brown curtains and burnt-orange sofas,” oh my!—but also to add emotional weight and heft to these very short stories…there’s a timelessness to these stories of women and girls …In Cold Toast, they stand defiant, refusing to disappear.”

Sarah Freligh, Bending Genres

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“Kathryn Aldridge-Morris’s first flash collection is a punchy and cohesive delight for the senses, peppered with dark wit… In Cold Toast [her] stories emerge in hyperfocus and, long after they close, linger.”

Amanda Krupman, SmokeLong Quarterly

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“Virtually all the stories in this debut collection set off a flurry of goosebumps. The voice in each piece is astounding. It’s growly and defiant, and smacks at the kernel of what it is to be a woman surviving, loving and pissing about in this mad world.”

Kik Lodge, Author of The Bully in my Pillow & Scream if You Want To

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“Brilliant debut collection (got such a strong chronological momentum and connected characters/objects it reads more like a novella in flash to me) and absolutely loved it! Highly recommend!”

Alison Woodhouse, author of The House on the Corner

 

“Electric stories of rebellion and compromise fill this volume. I enjoyed every one!”

Myna Chang, Author of The Potential of Radio and Rain

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“Aldridge-Morris creates tender and strong stories which feature young women negotiating their way through the changing norms of the time. Recommended.”

Bronwen Griffiths, author of Here Casts No Shadow & Longshore Drift