Enter the strange mind of Jason Erik Lundberg, hailed by The Guardian for “achieving emotionally resonant effects within just a few pages”. Let his imagination introduce you to an unearthly stargirl, a foul-mouthed wombat, slithering immortals, a fish with premonitions, and much more.
These short stories, painstakingly selected from Lundberg’s first three collections, include a brand-new novelette—“Slowly Slowly Slowly” takes place in a future Singapore where an old folks' home takes the form of an actual zoo—and the author's preferred texts of “The Stargirl and the Potter” and “Ikan Berbudi (Wise Fish)”.
Contents:
The Stargirl and the Potter
Always a Risk
Wombat Fishbone
King of Hearts
Strange Mammals
Great Responsibility
The Time Traveller’s Son
Slowly Slowly Slowly
Kopi Luwak
Complications of the Flesh
Most Excellent and Lamentable
Bodhisattva at the Heat Death of the Universe
Bogeymen
Ikan Berbudi (Wise Fish)