Oscar & Alice: A suburban Gothic novella

Oscar & Alice is a suburban Gothic tale of a dysfunctional family failing to cope with the aftermath of their sons sudden and gory death by lightning. Oscar whose head was apparently vaporised in the incident begins to haunt his still-living twin sister Alice. Alices efforts to find something like peace for herself and the remains of her family are helped along by Edith an eccentric pot-smoking neighbour and hampered by Jackie her man-eating other neighbour. Alice must contend with stray cats mean girls a goofball dog and a bag of flaming faeces. But maybe with advice and aid from unexpected sources shell help her brother move on and put her family back together again.