Obsolescence

by Angela Meyer

Short story.

In the rainy city of Bergen, Norway, a tattooed, troll-like figure quietly disposes of 'the guilty'. But Knut's instinct-driven mission is becoming more and more complex...

Originally published in The Lifted Brow 6: Atlas, edited by Ronnie Scott

Cover: artwork by Cecile Raposo-Knight, design by Sonja Meyer

6 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 20, 2011

About the author

Angela Meyer’s debut novel A Superior Spectre (Ventura Press, ANZ & Saraband, UK) was shortlisted for an Aurealis Award, the MUD Literary Prize, an Australian Book Industry Award, and the Readings Prize for New Australian Writing. She is also the author of a novella, Joan Smokes, which won the inaugural Mslexia Novella Award (UK), and a book of flash fiction, Captives. Her work has been widely published in magazines, journals and newspapers. She has worked in bookstores, as a book reviewer, in a whisky bar, and as commissioning editor and then publisher at Echo Publishing, where she was responsible for award-winning, internationally published and bestselling works. She now works as a freelance structural and story editor and consultant. She grew up in Northern NSW and lives in Melbourne.