Are You There and Other Stories

Download or read book Are You There and Other Stories written by Jack Skillingstead and published by Fairwood Press LLC. This book was released on 2024-08-06 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dynamic collection of 27 stories offers a wealth of fantastical and horrifying settings. Life after death, digital personalities, alien invasion, and Lovecraftian horror. It includes “Life on the Preservation,” the basis for Skillingstead’s Philip K. Dick nominated novel of the same name. In the title story, a parapolice detective in hot pursuit of a serial killer receives help from a responsive memory module of the killer’s mother, but soon discovers that he might be falling in love with the module. Edgy and surreal, each tale reflects on familiar, emotional issues and complex relationships from new and imaginative angles.