Caroline Smailes

Darren Craske

Nik Perring

A bizarre collection of short stories, each featuring a character with an unusual superpower. Meet The Photocopier, a woman who can reproduce herself at will and who attempts to teach her daughter to do the same. Or the zombie hairdresser who is able to reanimate every time she dies. And the man who can break his way into his lover's dream. Over fifty freaks and misfits feature in this unforgettable book, and each is illustrated by comic book artist Darren Craske.

Freaks

Jack doesn't like going to bed, he'd rather stay up, playing on his computer, watching television and discovering things! Nothing exciting could possibly happen once you're in bed could it? But, whenever Jack goes to sleep, something extraordinary happens, he travels back in time.

I Met a Roman Last Night, What Did You Do?

22 short short stories; 22 not so perfect lives, where bird watchers come out at night, couples perform love surgery, and a woman is throwing up animals. The extraordinary is everywhere, but an unsettling familiarity pervades. Nik Perring's brilliant debut collection demonstrates the underestimated powers of brevity. Intricately crafted and filled with dark humour, his 22 stories examine the conundrums and contradictions of human relationships, and ask us what it is to be human at all.

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