from Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart

Nethercott offers an excerpt from her work of speculative fiction, weaving together a bestiary of acutely imaginative descriptions/stories of atypical fantastical creatures in an insightful and fresh vision of the way non human beings can and do interact with human experience. She invites her readers to engage with the whimsical depictions of her creatures by intersecting the "real" with the unreal," effectively creating a welcoming yet undeniably bizarre set of characters in a unique folk-lore reminiscent narrative style.