A baby is born with gills. Foxes raise and then lose a human child. A man, in the final throes of his deathbed fever-dream, experiences a cross-Antarctic voyage. The stories in Furthest South, the second story collection from renowned writer Ethan Rutherford, find characters in the most unexpectedly menacing of circumstances, in which their sanity, happiness, and safety are put to the test. Formally ambitious, with an eye toward the strange, with a inimitable style all Rutherford's own, each story is nonetheless firmly grounded by a deep, human concern: the anxiety of family connection and humanity.
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Soren lived with his wife on the fourteenth floor of an apartment complex in the middle of the city. GHOST STORY
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(@AStrangeObject, 23 March 2021, 184 pages, ebook, #ARC from the publisher via @edelweiss_squad and voluntarily reviewed)
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This is a new author for me. This is a short collection with only eight stories. I enjoyed them all. The stories vary and length and subject matter so I didn't know what to expect with each one. Each story is quite dark and filled with fantastic elements and bizarre imagery and all are wonderfully written. The best stories were Fable, Farthest South and The Diver.
