Darker with the lights on
Subtitle: stories
By: David Hayden
Publisher: Transit Books
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9781945492112
Subjects: Short stories
Description: The 20 stories in this debut collection from David Hayden are strange, uncomfortable fables of memory, metamorphosis, time, disassociation and death: hard to fathom, but impossible to ignore. An undercurrent of primal violence runs through the tales. In the first story, "Egress", a man steps out from a high ledge on his office building, to fall "with fresh delight" and keeps on falling, somehow outside the laws of gravity and time. Another story, "The Bread that was Broken," records the mannered conversation at a glittering dinner party where the centrepiece is a blackened, smoking corpse.
Notes: First published in 2017 by Little Island Press -- Title page verso.
Table of contents: title: Egress --; title: The auctioneer --; title: Hay --; title: Memory house --; title: The bread that was broken --; title: Leckerdam of the golden hand --; title: Limbed --; title: Dick --; title: An apple in the library --; title: Mareg --; title: Last call fro the hated --; title: Elsewhere --; title: Remains of the dead world --; title: How to read a picture book --; title: Play --; title: Reading --; title: After the theatre --; title: Lights --; title: Golding --; title: Cosy.