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Terminal Zones - cover

Terminal Zones

Gareth E. Rees

Publisher: INFLUX PRESS

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Summary

'Fresh and disturbing stories mapping out the pressure points in the psychedelic everyday - Rees consistently reaches the places others do not.'
– Will Wiles, author of Plume
'Gareth E Rees propels us into a vast and uncanny future; showing us brief snatches of a world to come. A poignant message delivered with guile, wit and beauty.'
– Matt Wesolowski, author of Demon
'Strange, compelling and brilliantly funny.'
– Matt Wesolowski, author of Demon
Ten tragicomic tales of environmental and personal disaster from the margins of town and country.

A troubled hipster is seduced by an electricity pylon.

Sinister omens manifest in a supermarket car park.

A motorway bridge becomes a father.

Malevolent bacteria plague a polar icebreaker.

A bioengineered abomination lurks in a Gloucestershire railway terminus.

The weekly bin collection pushes a man over the edge.

A former squatter clings to her home on a crumbling cliff.

Joyriders are foiled by Anglo Saxon floodwaters.

Vampiric entities stalk B&Q.

And fiery catastrophe comes to the zoo.

Gareth E. Rees's first collection of short fiction explores lives on the verge of breakdown, where ordinary people are driven to extremes by the effects of late capitalism and ecological collapse.
Available since: 10/13/2022.
Print length: 180 pages.

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