At its core, the stories are about the struggle of living in a world that is cruel and filled with the unknown. But behind the facade of ordinary lives, lurks something dark. They are fathers, mothers, students, teachers, authors, thieves, dog walkers. Every story unsettles you, makes you float in that feeling of dread and unfamiliarity, even though on the surface these characters are people you recognise. If there is one word to describe Growing Things and Other Stories, it would be unsettling. The leaves shake in unison and in rhythm, their collected rustling forming their one true voice.
Merry imagines the growing things gathered outside her door, weaved into a fist as big as their house.
A couple of stories, Growing Things and The Thirteenth Temple, have links to the author’s full-length novel, A Head Full of Ghosts, but you don’t have to read it first to fully appreciate the content.
A collection of nineteen short stories that are surprising, suspenseful, apocalyptic, and at times, moving.
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