The Measure of Sorrow: Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781946154774)

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.

Author: J. Ashley-Smith
ISBN-10: 1946154776
ISBN-13: 9781946154774
Publisher: Meerkat Press
Language: English
Published: 06/06/2023
Pages: 202
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 9.02h x 6.15w x 0.43d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/24/2023
Booklist 05/01/2023 pg. 24