TY - BOOK AU - Khaw,Cassandra TI - Breakable things SN - 9781988964379 PY - 2022///] CY - Pickering, ON, Canada PB - Undertow Publications KW - Love KW - Fiction KW - Grief KW - Short stories KW - lcgft KW - Fantasy fiction KW - Horror fiction N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -