Terminal
From visionary writer Ricky Monahan Brown comes Terminal: fourteen tales of ‘the end’. From the neo-Gothic to sci-fi, Leith to Brooklyn, this is vibrant short fiction which will shock, humour and astound in equal heady measure.
“Terminal lives up to its titular promise of hurtling towards many different senses of ‘end’. Smart, trippy and irreverent, Monahan Brown’s narrative style is just as confident crawling under the bonnet of sci-fi as it is doing Celtic realism, moshing or luring us, fable-like, close to the wood wide web. What use is there for existentialism in an accelerated world of sex dolls, conceptual thanatos and perpetual technical difficulty? Drift on to find out. ”
— Maria Sledmere, author of Midsummer Song
“Ricky Monahan Brown’s stories evoke the uncanny reality of contemporary life and simultaneously summon the likes of Robert Louis Stevenson and Poe. Behind his precise prose lurk surprises around every corner, and Monahan Brown walks a fine line between reality and fable in a world that is at once familiar and strange. Spending time with these stories will be richly rewarding.”
— Stephen Sacco, host of Plague Remedy podcast
“Ricky Monahan Brown’s language has real pop and fizz. Tense, funny and original: these stories remind us what a good short story is.”
— Cameron Wylie, author of Is There a Pigeon in the Room?
Ricky Monahan Brown
Ricky Monahan Brown’s memoir, Stroke: A 5% chance of survival, was a Scotsman Nonfiction Book of 2019. The poetry and spoken word event he co-founded, Interrobang?!, won the 2017 Saboteur Award for Best Regular Spoken Word Night in Britain. His short and flash fiction has been published in Scotland, Ireland and the United States.