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Breakable things / Cassandra Khaw.
Van Pelt Library PR9530.9.K49 B74 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Khaw, Cassandra, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Love--Fiction.
- Love.
- Grief--Fiction.
- Grief.
- Genre:
- Fantasy fiction.
- Fiction.
- Horror fiction.
- Science fiction.
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- 245 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Pickering, ON, Canada : Undertow Publications, [2022]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1939 Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781988964379
- 1988964377
- OCLC:
- 1304815048
- Publisher Number:
- 99991106327
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