Forgetting Is How We Survive

<p><strong>Shortlisted for The Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2024</strong></p><p>A plane crashes. A boy drowns. A body is found on a dark lakeside.

A woman tries to make sense of a strange memory from her childhood. A father searches for a missing dog – his only link to his lost son. A boy on the brink of adolescence embarks on a journey and gets more than he bargained for.

Young lovers get their kicks trespassing in empty houses. A young man prepares to leave his hometown for the last time, and a giant sink hole threatens to swallow <em>everything</em>.</p><p><em>In Forgetting Is How We Survive</em>, people are haunted by ghosts of the past, tormented by doppelgangers and pining for the futures that have been lost to them. Each faces a turning point – an event that will move their life from one path to another, and every event casts a shadow.</p><p>The stories in this collection come from another England where earthy realism hides another world where anything is possible.</p>