The Teeth of a Slow Machine

<p><span style=color: rgba(88 89 91 1)>This daring irreverent short-story collection dissects and explores the conundrums of contemporary life and what it is to be human through a world very like our own.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(88 89 91 1)>A corporate satire follows a pair of dark operatives working for a chicken franchise as they take careful revenge on counterfeiters. A coder calculates the odds of her husband's cold developing complications and killing him in a story told in code. A relationship at breaking point is told via a scrambled timeline of events that works like a puzzle. A man spends his inheritance on technology that will allow him to fly. And an archeologist working for mining companies against the interests of Indigenous communities develops a mysterious psychological condition that causes her to black out and commit extreme acts of generosity.</span></p>