About the Book
British Fantasy Award 2010 for Best Collection.
The first love song in the world, as composed by a pig in the Garden of Eden...
The Devil, alarmed when his hobby of writing romantic fiction begins to upstage his day job...
A man finding love with someone who has an allergy to his happiness, another losing love altogether when his wife gives him back his heart in a Tupperware box...
By turns macabre and moving, horrific and laugh-out-loud funny, Robert Shearman's short stories come from a place just to the left of the corner of your eye.
Following his World Fantasy Award-winning 'Tiny Deaths', this new collection puts a bizarre twist on the love story. What is love, why does it hurt so much, and how is it we keep coming back for more?
Sometimes poignant, sometimes cruel – but always as startling and fresh as Shearman's fans have come to expect.
Contents:
- Love Among the Lobelias
- Roadkill
- Sweet Nothings
- Pang
- This Creeping Thing
- 14.2
- Your Long, Loving Arms
- At the Crease
- Luxembourg
- Sharp
- Be of Good Cheer
- Jolly Roger
- Crumble
- George Clooney's Moustache
- Love in a Time of Sharing
- Not About Love
- One Last Love Song
