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Out there stories kate folk6/21/2023 ![]() And many more that form Kate Folk's debut collection Out There deftly combines elements of science fiction, horror, and psychological realism to create implicitly political and feminist stories. A curtain of void obliterates the world at a steady pace, leaving one woman to decide whom she wants to spend eternity with, in The Void Wife. A house possesses gigantic human organs that consume the overworked graduate students renting its rooms, in The House's Beating Heart. speaks to the current social media moment almost too well. A ward for a mysterious bone-melting disorder is the scene of a perilous love triangle, in The Bone Ward. Kate Folk’s short stories are wonderfully weird playfully pushing the possibilities of plotlines towards the uncanny, creepy and off-kilter, they have a seam of dark humor that illuminates the grotesquery with an unnerving beauty. A sculptor, trapped in a skyscraper restaurant when a violent coup erupts below, creates a perfect model of the town as it is destroyed, in A Scale Model of Gull Point. Companion story Big Sur focuses on the reality of the blots' personal experiences. ![]() ![]() Summary: A fleet of fake men called 'blots' is unleashed onto the dating apps of San Francisco, intent upon conning vulnerable women out of their data, in the exquisite title story Out There. ![]()
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