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Featured Book of the Month

MAY 2025

Kate Rigby- Cutting Edge

About the Book

From childhood, with a pair of scissors in her hand, Hilary “cuts out the chain of Mummies and Daddies that Nanny has crayoned for her. Father's fist on the table now becomes only a blurred edge of sound, out of focus, like Mother's sobbing, as Hilary loses herself in the happy paper figures, the way she loses herself in the Happy Families cards…”


And so begins a life where a pair of scissors, and the occasional scalpel, come to define Hilary’s life: sometimes a tool for ambition but mostly a coping mechanism for frustration and despair.


The Review:

Genre: F/Drama


5+ Stars


Cutting Edge is one of the best of Kate Rigby's stories


In Cutting Edge, the reader is introduced to Hilary, whose life is drawn to the simplest cutting tools, such as scissors or a scalpel. This is a definite five plus stars story. Hilary uses the cuts of her scissor, mesmerized by what they cut, how they cut, and the sound it makes, when something is cut. Kate Rigby writes the best short stories that I have ever read, and each one is thought provoking, and themed in a way that is unique to Kate's writing style, and her way of story telling. You can hear every SNIP. I am a big fan of Kate Rigby, and read whatever this author writes. This author has a grand imagination, and talent for showing the story. This story is a definite attention grabber, so much I couldn't put it down. This is a story you will read repeatedly to make sure you didn't miss anything. Don't let the short of short story turn you away, because it is incredible and written as the full life of Hilary, the cuts from her life, and the ability to hold on, when the world is slowly being snipped away from her. 

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