999 by Simon John Parkin
£5.00
9 stories, 999 words each.
A man in the shadows dials 999 but there’s no emergency.
A mother cries into her compost bin.
A famous space tourist ponders her past.
A couple walk home after a failed rapture.
From the grimy canals of the Black Country to a sultry Brighton via a launchpad in the Texan desert, this debut collection of stories by Simon John Parkin captures moments of crisis, regret and loss, all in exactly 999 words each.
Unsettling, darkly comic and achingly tender.
