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Product details
- ISBN 9781914391132
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 13 Oct 2022
- Publisher: Influx Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Ten tragicomic tales of environmental and personal disaster from the margins of town and country.
A troubled hipster is seduced by an electricity pylon.
Sinister omens manifest in a supermarket car park.
A motorway bridge becomes a father.
Malevolent bacteria plague a polar icebreaker.
A bioengineered abomination lurks in a Gloucestershire railway terminus
The weekly bin collection pushes a man over the edge.
A former squatter clings to her home on a crumbling cliff.
Joyriders are foiled by Anglo Saxon floodwaters.
Vampiric entities stalk B&Q.
And fiery catastrophe comes to the zoo.
Gareth E. Rees's first collection of short fiction explores lives on the verge of breakdown, where ordinary people are driven to extremes by the effects of late capitalism and ecological collapse.
Gareth E. Rees is a writer of fiction and non-fiction, based in Hastings, East Sussex. He's the founder of the website, Unofficial Britain (www.unofficialbritain.com) and the author of Unofficial Britain (Elliott & Thompson, 2020) Car Park Life (Influx Press 2019), The Stone Tide (Influx Press, 2018) and Marshland (Influx Press, 2013). He has also contributed short stories to numerous anthologies of weird fiction and horror.
