Atavists: Stories Cooking and absolute power

and absolute power

has lived only for vengeance

her clothes are always carefully chosen to match the moment

I grew up with men who treated bullets like sugar cubes

Atavists: Stories Cooking and absolute powerVery few writers can make the apocalypse hilarious and sentimental. Stuart Kelly, Scotsman A fast moving, heartbreaking collection of short fiction from "the American writer with the funniest, wisest grasp on how we fool ourselves" (Chicago Tribune). The word atavism, coined by a botanist and popularized by a criminologist, refers to the resurfacing of a primitive evolutionary trait or urge in a modern being. This inventive collection from Lydia