Ebook: Forensic Songs

The last thing we need -- The great lad -- Beyond -- The man from God knows where -- There is a game out there -- There are things we know -- These two men -- From the city of dolls -- Of one mind -- Heaven's mandate -- Forensic songs -- Prophet X.;In his second collection of short stories, Mike McCormack joins head and heart in a series of tales that weave a fluid vision of a world morphing between the real and the hyperreal. Amid hollow laughter a prisoner is drawn from his cell in the middle of the night to play a video game; two rural guards ponder the security threat posed by the only man in Ireland not to have written his memoirs; a child tries to offset his destiny as a serial killer by petitioning his father for a beating; a late-night American cop show becomes a savage analysis of a faltering marriage; two men turn up at the doo.