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Nightmares: A Story Collection
A collection of short stories by Sam Mills, with illustrations from the award-winning Corey McAllen. Part of an ongoing collaboration to bring back the joy of 'books with pictures', Nightmares represents a culmination of several month's worth of drawing, writing and gnashing justifications for self-publishing at whoever will listen.
reflect our fears and spawn them. Unchecked, they haunt our waking worlds, blurring the distinction between dreams and reality. In 'Knights of the Realm,' two middle-aged divorcees fight to the death following a heated social media exchange. 'The Spontaneous Castration of Adam Price' explores a botched penis enlargement courtesy of the online manosphere. In 'Nightmares', a battle-hardened refugee rejects the sadomasochistic narrative of a popular TV show, much to the outrage of Gordon Ramsay.
reflect our fears and spawn them. Unchecked, they haunt our waking worlds, blurring the distinction between dreams and reality. In 'Knights of the Realm,' two middle-aged divorcees fight to the death following a heated social media exchange. 'The Spontaneous Castration of Adam Price' explores a botched penis enlargement courtesy of the online manosphere. In 'Nightmares', a battle-hardened refugee rejects the sadomasochistic narrative of a popular TV show, much to the outrage of Gordon Ramsay.
63 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 12, 2017
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Sam Mills
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Sam Mills was born in 1975. After graduating from Lincoln College, Oxford University, she worked briefly as a chess journalist and publicist before becoming a full-time writer. She has contributed short stories to literary magazines such as Tomazi and 3am and written articles for the Guardian, The Weeklings and The Independent.
She is the author of 3 young adult novels, published by Faber, including The Boys Who Saved the World, which is currently being adapted for film and the award-winning Blackout. Her debut novel for adults, The Quiddity of Will Self (Corsair) was described by The Sunday Times as “an ingenious, energetic read” and the Guardian as “an extraordinary novel of orgiastic obsession.” Sam is one of the founding members of the Will Self Club.
Sam Mills was born in 1975. After graduating from Lincoln College, Oxford University, she worked briefly as a chess journalist and publicist before becoming a full-time writer. She has contributed short stories to literary magazines such as Tomazi and 3am and written articles for the Guardian, The Weeklings and The Independent.
She is the author of 3 young adult novels, published by Faber, including The Boys Who Saved the World, which is currently being adapted for film and the award-winning Blackout. Her debut novel for adults, The Quiddity of Will Self (Corsair) was described by The Sunday Times as “an ingenious, energetic read” and the Guardian as “an extraordinary novel of orgiastic obsession.” Sam is one of the founding members of the Will Self Club.
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