I'm pleased to announce the release, in both trade paperback and e-book editions, of Sarah Tolmie's Sacraments for the Unfit. It is available now at www.aqueductpress.com. This is Sarah's fourth collection of fiction from Aqueduct.
The isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic brought out the ritualist in many of us. In this collection of contemporary weird short fiction, a variety of different persons and beings try to fill up their days in varying states of isolation and mystery, real or imaginary. An angel outlives the Apparat that used to employ him; a deity complains about no longer feeling seen; a museum curator living alone begins to inexplicably alter; a medievalist suffering from vision loss gets into a strange relationship with the ghost of the codicologist M. R. James; enigmatic objects begin to work themselves out of the ground by the grave of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, prompting scholarly speculation. Sacraments For the Unfit is a series of vignettes about the transformations that can happen while staying in place.
Read a sample from the book: http://www.aqueductpress.com/books/samples/978-1-61976-240-4.pdf
Advance Praise
“These stories could be the mad progeny of Umberto Eco and Ursula
K. LeGuin: fiendishly cunning thought-twisters that shimmer with
compassion and charisma.”
—Helen Marshall, author of The Migration
