Maria Roberts

Maria is twenty-nine years old. She is a single mother and lives on a council estate in Manchester. She�s also a chronic day-dreamer. One day she�d like to marry a beautiful man with a huge income to look after her and Jack, her nine-year-old son. The only problem is that her current boyfriend, Rhodri, a chickpea-loving vegan eco-warrior, has turned his back on career ladders. Neither does he believe in monogamy. And so Maria finds herself unexpectedly juggling one, two, three lovers . . . When Damien, Jack�s abusive father, who threatened more times than Maria cares to remember to kill her makes an unwelcome reappearance, she gets a wake-up call. Will Maria find a wonderful father figure for Jack by the time she turns thirty? A surprisingly humorous memoir with heartbreaking and unexpected moments, Single Mother on the Verge is a seductive and extremely touching read.

Single Mother on the Verge

Frank Cottrell Boyce

Ramsey Campbell

Hanif Kureishi

Paul Cornell

Jeremy Dyson

Nicholas Royle

Paul Magrs

Chaz Brenchley

Conrad Williams

Robert Shearman

Christine Poulson

Emma Unsworth

Mathew Holness

Lavinia Murray

Where does fear lurk in 21st century life? In a technological age hard-wired to keep information flowing and the unknown at bay, what irrationalities still linger for horror writers to tap into? This anthology - the first in a new series from Comma - offers 15 very different responses to the question. From ancient curses kept alive in internet chat-rooms to malevolent children's TV characters acquiring lives of their own, Phobic shines a torch into the unlit areas of the modern subconscious and suggests the more we know, the more we realise how worried we really should be.

Modern Horror Stories

Phobic

The Sorcery of Asenath

Maria Roberts

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