Sacraments for the Unfit  Forthcoming
The isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic brought out the ritualist in
many of us. In this collection of contemporary weird short fiction, a
variety of different persons and beings try to fill up their days in
varying states of isolation and mystery, real or imaginary. An angel
outlives the Apparat that used to employ him; a deity complains about
no longer feeling seen; a museum curator living alone begins to
inexplicably alter; a medievalist suffering from vision loss gets into
a strange relationship with the ghost of the codicologist M. R. James;
enigmatic objects begin to work themselves out of the ground by the
grave of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, prompting scholarly
speculation. Sacraments For the Unfit is a series of vignettes
about the transformations that can happen while staying in place.
Advance Praise
“These stories could be the mad progeny of Umberto Eco and Ursula
K. LeGuin: fiendishly cunning thought-twisters that shimmer with
compassion and charisma.”
—Helen Marshall, author of The Migration
ISBN: 978-1-61976-240-4 (13 digit)
Publication Date: 2023
paperback 146 pages
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