Dead Ends

by Laura Borrowdale

the dark, uncanny world of Dead Ends, our ghosts live alongside us, break ups come with a grisly cost, and there really are monsters under the bed. Laura Borrowdale’s sophomore collection is full of the horrors of domestic banality, parenting, relationships, and womanhood. With deft and exacting prose, Borrowdale’s stories reflect our own lives back at us told slant, revealing where something sinister lives just beneath the surface.

152 pages, Paperback

Published September 23, 2025

Reviews

[Salene Schloffel-Armstrong]

Imagine going to high school in Ōtautahi and then working out your teacher wrote these terrifying stories and is this cool