""Do you know how tiring that is? To experience every memory of someone's life in a single moment? It's as though someone's taken a sledgehammer to your mind, exploding it into countless shards, of which all are seen simultaneously and clearly. It overloads your senses with such totality that you can't direct yourself to scream. I lie there as though dead, but alive with such intensity that I'm aging ten, sixty or an infinity of years in a moment. And then I just want to die. I attempt to commit suicide. Of course, I cannot die. But it doesn't stop me trying.""
A man who dreams lifetimes; angels who grant sorrow; children that are gods. Across the telling of seven short tales in seven vast realms, "The Jeremiad Boy and other stories" is a collection of self-contained fantasy ideas which will tease, test, intrigue and inspire.
Simulacrum's Last Dream - A centuries-old human experiment finally finds its answer.
The Loveless Plain of Indifference - A man repeatedly attempts to remove his soul.
Penelope - An angel bestows her gifts through surgical operations.
The Jeremiad Boy - A town fair turns out to harbour performers more powerful than they seem.
Venus and Medusa - An interview with a Seer, who discusses the two great adversaries of our time.
Hell's Midwinter Night - An overly meticulous account of a Hell in which residents are cursed with a strange and peculiar torment.
The Tragic Muses of Bete Noire - A writer finds his ultimate muse, and with it an eternity of regret.
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