Wendy J. Fox writes: “In this linked collection of speculative fiction, an accountant who is learning to swim is interrogated by her humanoid companion; a woman is unanchored in time and cannot remember giving birth to her daughter or even who she is; and in the title story, a couple argues incessantly and from such deep unhappiness the woman dreams hopefully of contracting a fatal tumor. Gadsby’s stories have simmering resentment, the cruelty of children, and the terror of never belonging as characters right alongside her unhappy people, threaded together with recurring themes. The effect is a glittering collection with high emotional tension.“

Especially that my name sits alongside Hollay Ghadery and Kim Fu… like what the actual?? If you know how much I have read Kim’s book, for a greater understanding of domestic horror, for her gift of dark characters doing impressively fucked up things, you will know why she’s one of go-to short story writers!