From 22nd February to 1st March 2020
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For my birthday, I am giving away
 The Ministry of Flowers
and Other Stories

The Ministry of Flowers
Plus:
Immig's Work
The Life and Death Performance of Tony Bedowie
The Man Who Died
The Sweet Teeth of God
Parasite of Choice

233 pages
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Why is the city decaying?
Where have the colours gone?
Can he trust the cardboard collectors?
Can he trust the flowers?

Lorenzo is worried.

Everyone else is worried about Lorenzo.
novella ~ 80 pages

He climbed the last steps of the subway to a city of ghosts.

For the second time that week the street lights had failed and his fellow citizens, drab and dispirited at the best of times, were a shifting mass of shadows trudging the gloomy avenue...
Efen’s house is being eaten. Before long, it will be his turn.

In their mountain fastness, the Shunii despair.

What can their subtle culture do against such a predator?
story ~ 33 pages
dedicated to Ursula K. Le Guin

When summer came again, so did our oppressors.

After five years of these annual raids, we should have been expecting them, but we Shunii hope more blindly than most...
The birthday party on the prairie looks about to be ruined, when a wagon of passing circus players offers a hope.

Can they put on a show to save the day?
story ~ 29 pages

The jangling sound was starting to make Carl Melhouse nervous.

He had been dancing a jig with one of the Knowles women when the rhythm had all fallen apart. She stood staring at him like she didn’t know him...
IIn the Colony, death is a thing of the past.

So when a loaded gun turns up, Police Chief Gast orders Dr Judith Waugh to find out who could be behind it.

Before the unmentionable happens.
story ~ 33 pages

Mo Gudmundson would have died if it hadn’t been for the cake.

It was his three-hundredth birthday and just for once he was jolliness itself. To the whooped-up music, people clapping and dancing, he had leapt up onto the table, kicking off plates and cutlery, his friends and family shouting out, laughing....

Kathmandu

The swelling ambition of a boy

The gaping mouth of a black god

Whose hunger is the greater?
story ~ 15 pages

"You’re like your uncle. What a sorry excuse for a husband I got. He was so skinny he ended up breaking like the lead in a pencil. The girls like a good rounded man, they always have.'
I stared at my aunt’s appallingly satisfied smile and wondered if my uncle Jyoti really had died by snapping in two...
When the President of the United States calls on Jack Knight to give his opinion on a political threat to world peace, he is asking a man whose only expertise is slime moulds.
story ~ 46 pages

“Talk about a piece of slime.”
“Sweetheart, it’s the God’s honest truth.”
“You’re such a smartass, Jack, I don’t know why you didn’t think of it before. So let me read that back: you’ll be working overtime at an undisclosed location on a project that you cannot divulge without going to jail for twenty-five years. In fact, you can’t tell me anything at all..."