The End of Everything
Years of explanations for an unexplained invasion, thrown on a fire beneath a pier, then into the sea, leaving one page.
Notes on Books
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Essay
Biological Material: Three Novels and What the System Decides
A court, a committee and a wall, each fixing what a person is before the person has said a word.
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Business Continues: Ten Novels and the Speed of Harm
Violence converted into procedure across ten novels, from a Brazilian slaughterhouse to a predator whose vocabulary outlives him.
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Explanation Under Pressure
An event occurs without becoming motive. Explanation is demanded, but the act remains without justification.
Three
A daughter returns to her hometown after years abroad and finds her ageing parents living a life she no longer shares.
There Is No Antimemetics Division
A war against creatures that eat memory, fought by people the world no longer remembers.
Perfection
Two people who sell difference for a living, and the uncle’s farmhouse that turns out to be funding it.
Paradise Burns
A young man dies at twenty-four, and the people who loved him each keep a different piece of his life.
Biological Material: Three Novels and What the System Decides
A court, a committee and a wall, each fixing what a person is before the person has said a word.
The Wax Child
Women who really do work magic, condemned by a court that manufactures its evidence anyway.
To the East of the East
A husband gone to Macau under another man's name, explaining himself in letters that reach his wife too late.
The Employees
An investigation into strange objects aboard a generational ship escalates into a labour dispute the organisation acknowledges and buries simultaneously.
Paradais
A gardener paid in rum to hear out the boy next door, turning a nightly fantasy into a plan.
The Renovation
A prison cell behind a bathroom wall serves an exile her country back, and it dissolves on the way out.
This Is Not Miami
Twelve accounts from Veracruz move between reportage, testimony and rumour, where the version of an event decides what happens next.