A Moonlit Café’s Bookquet

 

A Moonlit Café’s Chapbook Bookquet

5 mini-micro chapbooks, tied up with a leaf string to make a book-bouquet of “bookquet”.

Take On An Empty Stomach by Kieran O’Mant – instructions for a pill that you should take on the worst day of your life, and every subsequent day. A dark exploration of despair, lifted by the unreality of how bad things can get and the matter-of-fact way that drug instructions have of talking about such things.

A Watcher by Ric Stott – Two boys find love and revelation in the forest, the fungus forming part of a ritual.

Form Fragments by Kris James – Four poems, loosely linked by themes of romanticism, classical myth, and transformation.

Last Time I Went To The Dentist by Scarlett Lewis – in which someone goes to the dentist who asks all the usual questions, questions that get into the darkness and failures and self-loathing, also questions about teeth.

Salt Ash by Katy Naylor – a folk song group tries to keep things together, using the songs to understand while the world ends in a snow storm of ash, cutting them off from the outside world.

NB I have been published in Katy Naylor’s online interactive lit mag Voidspace; in keeping with her love of interactive fiction her micro-mini-chap comes with a playlist of the folksongs used in her story