Two husbands talk at the end of everything. A train, full of flowers, is derailed by love. Edinburgh is enslaved by city-sized alien bodies. Something close to hell inhabits the basement of a bakery and ghosts explore the energy-root of the multiverse.

The stories read like dispatches from a digital apocalypse. Written as prose, speech, thought and game, this collection is a catalogue of post-internet mythmaking, a discourse in Celtic surrealism, gay techno-hauntings, acid-mannerism, and sprawling, spitting hyper-fiction.

Written with tender, geometric prose, Macartney uses the experiences of online youth, retail labour, modern queerness, and Scotland’s quiet and mysterious sadness to address the seething strangeness of social spheres, emotional exploitation, and the looming threat of ourselves.