Christy Smyth's debut collection of short stories

Originally published through Plastic Brain Press in July 2021

'Mass hysteria is sweeping the country. The Department of Assisted Suicide is overwhelmed. No one has seen Wonderboy for months.

Everything is crumbling, and nothing would make me happier.

Christy Smyth's debut collection is a darkly comic vision of our near future. Grotesque characters navigate a country that is indelibly warped, yet uncomfortably familiar.

These eight interconnected stories explore the ennui and malaise of modern life.

If you don't laugh, you'll cry.'


"A bleak, haunting vision that encompasses the best of English horror from the BBC adaptations of MR James to the morbid satire of Chris Morris's Jam" - Lincolnshire Life Magazine