The spoils. Many-eyed monsters -- Three love letters from an unrepeatable garden -- Corwick grows -- Loves of the long dead -- Reflection, refraction, dispersion -- Farleyton -- Into glass -- Compel -- Chantress -- Blessings erupt -- Star in the spire -- From the neck up -- The tears of a building surveyor, and other stories -- To the farm -- The spoils.
Summary:
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 strangeness of everyday life through beguiling gardens, rebellious bodies and journeys across familiar worlds, with her trademark wit and compassion. Witness the future of farming in a new Ice Age, or the artist bringing life to glass; the many-eyed monsters we carry and the secret cities inside our bodies; the alien invasion through our language to the Chantress and her twists on the fairy tale. Fascinating and always unexpected, Whiteley is unlike any other writer working today.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.