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Inspired by the Australian bushfires and the global pandemic of 2020, this small collection of easy-to-read short stories will give you a serious jolt.
A busy street becomes an eerie café. An unimportant man chats to his television. The best-laid plans for a green and vegan world go wrong. A man wakes up as a woman, or so he thinks. A plague party with neighbours. A bad-news addict, a doomscroller, gets his comeuppance. And a grandfather writes...
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A dying man's life flashes past as science fiction stories created by his panicked brain. Trying to make sense of its imminent demise, the brain spins tales of monster flies, and time machines, and weird factories, and a library of unreachable books. As it fights to stay in the past, forever circling its final moments, the dementing organ casts itself as The Great Mind, a god-like entity at the end of time. This Sum of the Dead resets a repeatedly...
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Qualia is an elderly widow, dying alone in her bedroom. Suddenly, she's a young housewife in a psychiatrist's office, explaining how she's hearing voices in the walls of her house-and how her husband, Pierce, is ignoring her. There's something wrong with her world. No one wants to take her money, except for her disbelieving psychiatrist-and Pierce pays for him. Did Pierce write the book to drive her mad? Is her doctor gaslighting her? Can she trust...
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