JAMES COOPER

YOU ARE THE FLY: TALES OF REDEMPTION & DISTRESS

Published by Humdrumming Books in September, 2007

Introduction by Greg F. Gifune

You live in a world darkened by the threat of global terrorism, where the very worst of human nature can be seen in the faces of young and old alike.

You walk the streets and sense their fear. They are not just afraid of you; they are afraid of everything. The married couple whose relationship is falling apart. The next-door neighbour who furtively stares across the fence. The street children you once used to know.

This is the dawning of a new dark age. An apocalyptic vision of life in the 21^st Century, when only the horror of what you’ve become remains.

You are touched by it, and you are transformed.

Your journey has already begun.

YOU ARE THE FLY: TALES OF REDEMPTION & DISTRESS

16 subversive stories that illuminate the human condition and escort you to the very brink of the unknown.

Only those of you who endure shall be redeemed.

"Though James Cooper's love of the traditional horror tale is evident in his writing, his fiction is anything but formulaic. His work is thought-provoking, passionate, slightly offbeat, and delves as deeply into the often very real horror of the human condition as it does elements of the fantastic. A fresh new voice in dark fiction, James Cooper is a writer on the rise, and deservedly so."

- Greg F. Gifune,  author of DOMINION & DEEP NIGHT

CONTENTS

The Other Son

You Are The Fly ♦

What Dread Hand

Shortly Comes The Harvest  ♦

Hollow Heart

Old Dull Eyes

In Fetu

A Frailty of Moths

And So Departs

Earth Mother Grotesque

Gouranga

They're Here

All He Wrote

The Marriage Feast Begun

The Constant Eye ♦

The Skin I'm In

 ♦ Honourable Mention in Ellen Datlow's YBF&H