Friday, 1 November 2019

Arms Against a Sea

Arms Against a Sea (2019)
Raphus Press

Limited deluxe edition published in Brazil featuring fourteen stories. A perfect square in format (7.87 × 7.87''), 90 pages, with a exclusive handcrafted Japanese binding style.

Also a paperback (and ebook) edition featuring twenty stories. Dreamlike fables that range the distant tropical shores of the overheated imagination. Tales about falling stars, mythological giants, reincarnated cats, lost cities, jungles, sieges, ghosts, mountains. detached faces that set off on sea voyages, cavemen that are living retail outlets, the misunderstandings and misadventures of absurdist life.

Contents:

The Lynchpin * Silky Salathiel * Arms Against a Sea * Weepy Boo Hoo * Maximum Efficiency * Disdain of the Game * The Long Ward * Starfish Wish * The Divided Island * The Siege * And Follow Me * Her Face was Flushed * The Bookmark * On the Threshold * The Shepherd's Ascent * The World Premiere * Moth in a Daydream * Perspectives * All Your Belongings * The Explorer's Porters

Note: The paperback edition contains four stories not included in the original limited volume. These bonus stories are ‘Disdain of the Game’, ‘The Bookmark’, ‘Moth in a Daydream’ and ‘The Explorer’s Porters’.