The measure of sorrow : stories
Call Number
- FICTION ASHL (CEN)
Publication Information
Asheville : Meerkat Press, 2023.
Physical Description
183 pages ; 22 cm
Summary
"J. Ashley-Smith's first collection, The Measure of Sorrow, draws together ten new and previously acclaimed stories of dark speculative fiction. In these pages a black reef holds the secret to an interminable coastal limbo; a father struggles to relate to his estranged children in a post-bushfire wilderness; an artist records her last days in conversation with her unborn child; a brother and sister are abandoned to the manifestations of their uncle's insanity; a suburban neighbourhood succumbs to an indescribable malaise; teenage ravers fall in with an eldritch crowd; a sensitive New Age guy commits a terminal act of passive-aggression; a plane crash opens the door to the Garden of Eden; the new boy in the village falls victim to a fatal ruse; and a husband's unexpressed grief is embodied in the shadows of a crumbling country barn. Intelligent and emotionally complex, the stories in The Measure of Sorrow elude easy classification, lifting the veil on the wonder and horror of a world just out of true."--
Contents
- Intro
- The further shore
- Old growth
- The moth tapes
- The family madness
- The whatnot shop
- Our last meal
- The black massive
- The face God gave
- The boon
- The measure of sorrow
- Acknowledgments
- About the author.