Song for the Unraveling of the WorldA newborn’s absent face appears on the back of someone else’s head, a filmmaker goes to gruesome lengths to achieve the silence he’s after for his final scene, and a therapist begins, impossibly, to appear in a troubled patient's room late at night. In these stories of doubt, delusion, and paranoia, no belief, no claim to objectivity, is immune to the distortions of human perception. Here, self-deception is a means of justifying our most inhuman impulses—whether we know it or not. |
Contents
Song for the Unraveling of the World | |
The Second Door | |
Room Tone | |
Shirts and Skins | |
A Disappearance | |
The Glistening World | |
Lord of the Vats | |
Trigger Warnings | |
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