More Stories about Buildings & People

<p>These fifteen short stories from Brooke Fieldhouse include six old favourites: the Warner Group prizewinning love story <em>THE GIFT</em>, the liquid nightmare of <em>DROWNING BY NUMBERS</em> and the petrifying tale of immuration <em>RAW CONCRETE</em>.</p><p>The collection is in three parts: <em>Love, Fear, </em>and <em>Love & Fear</em>, and each story is headed with a colour image taken from original collages by the author.</p><p>The nine previously unpublished pieces range from the bone chilling <em>THE LILYWHITE BOY</em>, through the heartbreaking story of Deidre’s attempt to achieve immortality by <em>RUNNING WITH THE BULLS</em>, the mysteriously philosophical <em>MINDFULNESS COMPASSION & THE SECOND SEX</em>, to the metaphysical surreal adult fairy tale <em>THERE ISN’T AN OUNCE OF MALICE IN A MOOSE</em>. The group also includes the reconciliatory <em>IN PLAIN SIGHT </em>which was shortlisted for the 2019 Fiction Factory Prize, and the mischievously morbid care home fable <em>A PERFECT LIKENESS</em> which was long-listed for the 2020 Fiction Factory Prize.</p><p>Fieldhouse dedicates the book to his late parents and elaborates with a brief, thoroughly unsentimental and notably misery-free memoir and a haunting Afterword.</p>