Famished

‘By turns stomach-churning, tantalising and opulent — these stories confirm Vaught’s baroque talents..’
— Heidi James, author of The Sound Mirror.
In this dark and toothsome collection, Anna Vaught enters a strange world of apocryphal feasts and disturbing banquets. Famished explores the perils of selfish sensuality and trifle while child rearing, phantom sweetshop owners, the revolting use of sherbet in occult rituals, homicide by seaside rock, and the perversion of Thai Tapas. Once, that is, you’ve been bled dry from fluted cups by pretty incorporeals and learned about consuming pride in the hungriest of stately homes.
Famished: seventeen stories to whet your appetite and ruin your dinner.

Short Stories Literary Fiction

80 printed pages

Copyright owner: Bookwire
Original publication: 2020
Publication year: 2020
Publisher: Influx Press

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When you bask in colour, you may push back the horror and what dreams may come, if only for a slender moment. 76
But still you push. And then sometimes you must peel, chop, core, boil and simmer.
Because the push does not work.
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Victoria Sonnenberghas quoted5 months ago
. I don’t know what fear might take hold or could be murmured. What might be imbibed: spirit or very blood. And none of us knows how hard a bloodless infant can kick when it’s strong from getting all the love.
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Victoria Sonnenberghas quoted5 months ago
Did you imagine it, or could you see little bites on the pretty biscuit and the desiccated fruit in each lap? And did you trace a crumb on a dainty lip or hear a mew of mastication at each little person?
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