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'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.
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[Review] The Measure of Sorrow
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: Andromeda Spaceways Magazine , no. 90 2023; (p. 102-103)
— Review of The Measure of Sorrow : Stories 2023 selected work short story -
[Review] The Measure of Sorrow
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: Aurealis , no. 158 2023;
— Review of The Measure of Sorrow : Stories 2023 selected work short story
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[Review] The Measure of Sorrow
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: Aurealis , no. 158 2023;
— Review of The Measure of Sorrow : Stories 2023 selected work short story -
[Review] The Measure of Sorrow
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: Andromeda Spaceways Magazine , no. 90 2023; (p. 102-103)
— Review of The Measure of Sorrow : Stories 2023 selected work short story