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Sometime's We're Cruel and Other Stories

by J. A. W. McCarthy · 2021

ISBN: 9798545431144

Category: Fiction / Horror

Page count: 214

<p><i>A town where people go missing and inexplicably return as cruel versions of themselves.</i></p><p><i>A not-quite-human mother races against time to build a new body for her ailing daughter.</i></p><p><i>Lovesick ghosts inhabit the body parts of living people in a world where the only other choice is amputation.</i></p><p><i>A woman takes extreme measures to combat the repercussions of a childhood hazing ritual gone wrong.</i></p><p>Obsession. Selfishness. Cruelty. Doppelgängers. In these dark, speculative stories-six reprints and six never before published, including the novelette "Girls Tied to Trees"-<b>J.A.W. McCarthy</b> explores how far humans and the not-quite-human will go to tame the darkness in their world and within themselves.</p>