Written across near-future and slightly altered worlds where intimacy is shaped by technology, grief, fantasy, loneliness, and desire — but never reduced to concept alone.

These are stories about people trying, often awkwardly and sometimes desperately, to reach one another: through memory, through simulation, through bodies, through the wreckage of ordinary feeling. The speculative edge is there, but lightly handled; what stays in the hand is the emotional atmosphere, the oddness of modern attachment, and the sense that love now arrives tangled up with distance, mediation, and invention.

Good for readers who like literary short fiction with a speculative tilt — Jenny Offill-adjacent in sensibility, though softer and more romantic in places — or for anyone interested in stories where emotional sincerity and weirdness are allowed to share a room.

Paperback in very good condition. This edition published by The Text Publishing Company in 2020. Printed and bound in Australia.