The micro stories showcase a blend of bizarre humor and poignant insights, offering condensed slices of reality that are both hilarious and haunting. Each tale resonates with an unsettling depth, revealing hidden secrets that linger in the reader's mind, creating a unique and thought-provoking reading experience.
The sequel to 'Sawn-off Tales' presents a collection of bizarre, edgy ultra-short stories alongside a few longer narratives. Readers can delve deeper into David Gaffney's unique universe, filled with humor and poignant moments, showcasing his distinctive storytelling style. This compilation promises to engage and entertain with its blend of the strange and the heartfelt.
Features surreal tales. David Gaffney's compact, surreal tales are filled with poignancy and wit. Each story goes off like a tiny depth charge in the mind, leaving you with the trace memory of some new urban myth - comic, absurd and disturbingly true
David Gaffney's compact, surreal tales are filled with poignancy and wit. Each story goes off like a tiny depth charge in the mind, leaving you with the trace memory of some new urban myth - comic, absurd and disturbingly true.
The book presents a collection of stories that blend humor, oddity, and poignant sadness, showcasing how fleeting moments can have profound impacts. From a man discovering glass eyes in a river to a couple reflecting on their bond after a vase breaks, each tale invites readers to rethink their connections to the world. A zoo with minimal inhabitants prompts introspection, while a comedian's unique choice of expression through smell adds an unconventional twist. These narratives explore the intricate tapestry of human experience and perception.
All The Places I've Ever Lived takes you on a journey from the small-town murder of a teenage girl in the 1970s to the real-life multiple shootings in Whitehaven in 2010, linking these two appalling events in a way which illuminates the way a place and its people are shaped by the crimes that happen there.
British comedy blended with universal regret, this darkly funny graphic novel, using surreal yet beautiful visions, explores the ways we remain haunted by our ex-lovers. Valerie has a rich interior life. Serially unlucky in love, to feel better she imagines that her previous boyfriends are dead and that their bodies are kept downstairs in the cellar in a strange, mummified state. Every day she brings them upstairs and speaks with them about what went wrong. What follows is a series of peculiar and funny, and sometimes disturbing short tales about inept lovers, weird obsessions, and socially malfunctioning men who repeatedly fail to build a relationship with poor Valerie. Apart from Stanley. Stanley was special. Could he be the one to save her? The Three Rooms in Valerie’s Head is a dark comedy about relationships, memory, loneliness and obsession and is the first collaboration between ultra-short fiction writer David Gaffney and comic artist Dan Berry. "Funny, poignant, surreal and still warmly emotional and human, a delight to read." - Forbidden Planet International Blog "It’s a wonderfully offbeat, dark comedic delight." - Comicon.com
Three ordinary weirdos, one recurring dream. The acclaimed minds behind The Three Rooms in Valerie's Head return with a whimsical and ambitious portrait of human connection in the age of digital fragmentation. You meet the strangest people on the internet. Gideon is a lonely I.T. developer, obsessed by a comic book from childhood called Revenge of the Ghoulors, and secretly in love with his co-worker Lisa. Heidi works at home in her pyjamas, makes a lot of soup, and wishes she had time for friends. Peter is a 56-year-old divorcee who delivers classic cars, has a built-in toaster, and thinks a lot about the past. These three people seem unconnected, yet they share something -- they each have the same recurring dream. And when a new web service is introduced that helps people share their dreams, what will happen when the three of them find out about each other? Just what is it that links these three lonely souls? Nimbly weaving together multiple storylines (including extracts from Gideon's comic book, Revenge of the Ghoulors), Dan Berry and David Gaffney present Rivers: a quirky examination of how events from the past can bind people together forever, and a surprising reunion between people who've never met.
Haunting and funny stories that explore the theme of town versus country with a dark humour and a surreal spin.