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“katy wimhurst”

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  • An Orchid in my Belly Button

    by Katy Wimhurst ...
    Offbeat short stories that explore our fragile worldThese stories savour the surreal, flirt with magical realism, dabble with dystopia. A boy sees the ghosts of dead crabs. A girl with a fox tail is bullied. A disenchanted woman sprouts orchids from her belly button. Fashion models pursue the trend of having plants as hair. Electronic goods amassing all over London herald an apocalypse. Darkness ... Read more

    $5.49 USD

  • Snapshots of the Apocalypse

    by Katy Wimhurst ...
    In these dark, witty short stories, Katy Wimhurst creates off-kilter worlds which illuminate our own. Here, knitting might cancel Armageddon. A winged being yearns to be an archaeologist. Readers are sucked into a post-apocalyptic London where the different rains are named after former politicians. An enchanted garden grows in a rented flat. Magical realism meets dystopia, with a refreshing twist ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Snapshots of the Apocalypse

    by Katy Wimhurst ...
    In these dark, witty short stories, Katy Wimhurst creates off-kilter worlds which illuminate our own. Here, knitting might cancel Armageddon. A winged being yearns to be an archaeologist. Readers are sucked in a post-apocalyptic London where the different rains are named after former politicians. An enchanted garden grows in a rented flat. Magical realism meets dystopia, with a refreshing twist. ... Read more

    $7.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Pathbreakers and Other Stories

    by Guy Russell, Paul GnanaSelvam, Ksatria Baskara Prasetya, Ntebeti Ntini, Mulki Ahmed, Ivan Kwok, Aqil Rifqi, Aneeta Sundararaj, Katy Wimhurst, Ismim Putera, JM Gravidez Parlingayan, Philip Stenstrom, Ferryn Foong, Stephen T. Homer, Edwin Kee, Fadzlishah Johanabas, Yap Li Tyng, Ryoka Tanoi, Iram Moazzam, Matthew Yap ...
    What happens when Earth becomes truly unrecognisable?Embrace a ustopia in The Pathbreakers and Other Stories – an unforgettable collection of short stories. Immerse yourself in towering skyscrapers wreathed in vines and blooming gardens or feel the bone-chilling embrace of harsh Arctic conditions. What about the question of how a friendly tug-of-war brings out the hero in us? What is it about ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Because I Don't Know What You Mean and What You Don't

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  • Hermit

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    by Jade Angeles Fitton ...
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  • Best British Short Stories 2017

    by Jay Barnett, Peter Bradshaw, Rosalind Brown, Krishan Coupland, Claire Dean, Niven Govinden, Françoise Harvey, Andrew Michael Hurley, Daisy Johnson, James Kelman, Giselle Leeb, Vesna Main, Courttia Newland, Eliot North, Irenosen Okojie, Laura Pocock, David Rose, Deirdre Shanahan, Sophie Wellstood, Lara Williams, Nicholas Royle ...
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  • Short Black 4 Regions of Thick-Ribbed Ice

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  • From the Neck Up and Other Stories

    by Aliya Whiteley ...
    “Feels like a major collection” – The Washington PostA short fiction collection to stand with Ted Chiang's Exhalation and Kelly Link's Magic for Beginners.The new collection of beautiful, strange and disarming short stories from the award-winning author of The Beauty, Clarke Award nominee The Loosening Skin and The Arrival of Missives, Aliya Whiteley. In 16 stories Whiteley deftly unpeels the stra ... Read more

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