One Bad Night & Other Stories

Books

In "Two Observers of the Slaughter Rites on Gannet Island," an anthropologist and his wife travel to the remote Gannet Island to observe a mysterious yearly ritual. In "My Lithopedia," a woman learns that she had an unborn twin sister, extracted as a stone baby during her late mother's autopsy and decides to keep it. In "Lady Jawbone," Lilou is trapped inside a nightmarish phosphorous match factory, when a strange new arrival offers her a way out. In "A Necromancer's Guide to Reconnecting with Your Ex," the ghost of Roxanne's rock-and-roll ex asks her to resurrect him, forcing her to confront what it means to truly let go. In "Red Tide," a woman running from her past finds work at a small-town aquarium, where she encounters the "spectre fish," a carnivorous mer-creature of local lore. In "47 Pineview Way," an anxious mother drops off her son at his first sleepover-but the next morning, the house where she left him has disappeared. In "A Meditation on the Existence of Certain Cutlery (There is No Spoon)," ...