Old Growth single work   short story   fantasy   horror  
Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 Old Growth
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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon SQ Mag no. 31 June 2017 12014215 2017 periodical issue 2017
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Measure of Sorrow : Stories J. Ashley Smith , Atlanta : Meerkat Press , 2023 25917048 2023 selected work short story

    'Shirley Jackson Award-winning author J. Ashley-Smith’s first collection, The Measure of Sorrow, draws together ten new and previously acclaimed stories of dark speculative fiction. In these pages a black reef holds the secret to an interminable coastal limbo; a father struggles to relate to his estranged children in a post-bushfire wilderness; an artist records her last days in conversation with her unborn child; a brother and sister are abandoned to the manifestations of their uncle’s insanity; a suburban neighbourhood succumbs to an indescribable malaise; teenage ravers fall in with an eldritch crowd; a sensitive New Age guy commits a terminal act of passive-aggression; a plane crash opens the door to the Garden of Eden; the new boy in the village falls victim to a fatal ruse; and a husband's unexpressed grief is embodied in the shadows of a crumbling country barn. Intelligent and emotionally complex, the stories in The Measure of Sorrow elude easy classification, lifting the veil on the wonder and horror of a world just out of true.'

    Source: Publisher's blurb.

    Atlanta : Meerkat Press , 2023
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