Full Description
This is David Gaffney's latest collection of micro stories. We see a world where thinking is illegal, belly dancers' blood is used to fertilize tomato plants, pensioners in leather trousers dance to two-step garage, and an architect steals crested newts and hides them in his bath.
The stories are often beyond odd yet always ordinary, a warped backward-talking world of Lynchian surreality, allowing an emotional insight into the rich interior lives of social outsiders, the broken and the easily-breakable, perpetually on the fringes of our world.
Contents
Half open
A certain type of man
Talking about Emmy-Lou
Everything's gone turquoise
The history brush
Having it like Pontefract
Half aware
Towns in France exactly like this
Junctions one to four were never built
Buildings crying out
Everlast
The forcing of air
Live feed
Half There :
The Three Daves
Are Friends Electric?
You Would Have
I Liked Everything
Half Here:
Wooden Animals
Remaking the Moon
Do the Voice
Pathfinders
Emergency Kisses
Celia's Mum's Rat
Half Gone:
We are the Real Time Experiment
Delivered by Sharks
Previously Loved
The Ones we Left
Shaky Ron and the Chewing Gum Robots
Half Awake:
Double Digging
Away Day
Gelling
Candy Girl
One Thing Deeply
Don't Thank Me Thank the Moon's Gravitational Pull
Half Alone:
How the Taste Gets In
Desire lLnes
To Cause Amusement
Spoilt Victorian Child
Heart Keeps Holding On
Domino Bones
Half Loved:
Some World, Somewhere
The Next Best Thing
Portraits of Insane Women
Monkeys in lLove
Is Your Thought Really Necessary?
Half Whole:
The Valued Coach Driver and his Spiral Wife
Music Like ours Never Dies
The Buddy Holly Electrician
Keep Them on, Love
What You See is There
Coned
Not Static
Half Closed:
The Only Man with Fire
People who Don't Belong
So Much Noise
The Half-Life of Songs
Come and Play in the Milky Night
