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I can honestly say I had no idea what to expect throughout any of the collections eighteen shorts, but it was thrilling being taken along for the ride. Hailey Piper is always ten steps ahead of the reader, laying breadcrumbs to guide you into seemingly familiar territory, only to pull back the curtain, for you to realise you’re in completely over your head. Trying to predict, or relate the reading experience to any other, is folly. There is no guessing where a story is going, or what kind of tale she has in store for us next. It’s both beautifully succinct and incredibly apt because it really gets across how imaginative and unpredictable her fiction is. “Hailey thinks around corners” It’s both beautifully succinct and incredibly apt bec In her rousing introduction to Hailey Piper’s latest short story collection, ‘Unfortunate Elements of My Anatomy’, Laurel Hightower uses four words that summarise the experience of reading these stories, or Piper’s work in general, more completely than this review could hope to do, and it was a line that stuck with me, both while reading the book, and when I was reflecting on what I’d read long after I’d finished. In her rousing introduction to Hailey Piper’s latest short story collection, ‘Unfortunate Elements of My Anatomy’, Laurel Hightower uses four words that summarise the experience of reading these stories, or Piper’s work in general, more completely than this review could hope to do, and it was a line that stuck with me, both while reading the book, and when I was reflecting on what I’d read long after I’d finished. Including two new short stories and a never-before-published novelette, Unfortunate Elements of My Anatomy digs deep inside and clings to the beating nightmare heart you always knew was there.more
WANNA KNOW MY SECRET IDENTITY TRIAL
Superstitions thrive even in the distant future and across the stars when a colony shuttle mounts a witch trial in “Hairy Jack.” And try to “Forgive the Adoring Beast” as it scavenges a world of dead gods for tokens of bloody affection. The universe unwinds to the tune of a malicious ice cream truck jingle in “We All Scream.” “The Law of Conservation of Death” dictates that a ghost pursue his prey across her every reincarnation. The universe unwinds to the tune of a malicious ice cream truck jingle in “We All Scream.” “The Law of Conservation of Deat Love twisted into horrific shapes, nightmares driven by cruel music, and a world where what little light remains fractures the sky into midnight rainbows in eighteen stories tracing the dark veins of queer horror, isolation, and the monstrous feminine. Love twisted into horrific shapes, nightmares driven by cruel music, and a world where what little light remains fractures the sky into midnight rainbows in eighteen stories tracing the dark veins of queer horror, isolation, and the monstrous feminine.