Breakable things /
Khaw, Cassandra,
Breakable things / Cassandra Khaw. - First edition. - 245 pages ; 22 cm
Don't turn on the lights -- A leash of foxes, their stories like barter -- Radio werewolf -- Recite her the names of pain -- Kiss, don't tell -- An ocean of eyes -- The truth that lies under skin and meat -- Mothers, we dream -- How selkies are made -- A secret of devils -- Goddess, worm -- A priest of vast and distant places -- The games we play -- For the things we never said -- She who hungers, she who waits -- Monologue by an unnamed mage, recorded at the brink of the end -- You do nothing but freefall -- The ghost stories we tell around photon fires -- The quiet like a homecoming -- And in our daughters, we find a voice -- In the rustle of pages -- Bargains by the slant-light -- Some breakable things.
Explores the fragile and nebulous bonds that weave love and grief into our existence. This exquisite and cutting collection of stories showcases a bloody fusion of horrors from cosmic to psychological to body traumas.
9781988964379 1988964377
Love--Fiction.
Grief--Fiction.
Short stories.
Fantasy fiction.
Horror fiction.
Breakable things / Cassandra Khaw. - First edition. - 245 pages ; 22 cm
Don't turn on the lights -- A leash of foxes, their stories like barter -- Radio werewolf -- Recite her the names of pain -- Kiss, don't tell -- An ocean of eyes -- The truth that lies under skin and meat -- Mothers, we dream -- How selkies are made -- A secret of devils -- Goddess, worm -- A priest of vast and distant places -- The games we play -- For the things we never said -- She who hungers, she who waits -- Monologue by an unnamed mage, recorded at the brink of the end -- You do nothing but freefall -- The ghost stories we tell around photon fires -- The quiet like a homecoming -- And in our daughters, we find a voice -- In the rustle of pages -- Bargains by the slant-light -- Some breakable things.
Explores the fragile and nebulous bonds that weave love and grief into our existence. This exquisite and cutting collection of stories showcases a bloody fusion of horrors from cosmic to psychological to body traumas.
9781988964379 1988964377
Love--Fiction.
Grief--Fiction.
Short stories.
Fantasy fiction.
Horror fiction.