A hotchpotch of nine short stories. A man’s wife transforms into a fox, an anaesthetist is called in the middle of the night for a twenty-week miscarriage, a woman becomes addicted to sugar and sex before discovering that she has a meningioma in the prefrontal cortex. Nine very dissimilar stories, some with a nice weirdness and some much more plain.
“He might find comfort in the sinew of winter, when nothing exists but that which is already exposed, and so he does, slowly, and as the earth tilts back towards the sun, his mind begins to ease a little. To be comfortable inside one’s sadness is not valueless. This too will pass. All things tend towards transience, mutability. It is in such mindful moments, when everything is both held and released, that revelation comes.”
Contents
Mrs Fox / Case Study 2 / Theatre 6 / Wilderness / Luxury Hour / Later, His Ghost / Goodnight Nobody / One in Four / Evie