IN PASSING: STORIES FROM THE EDGE OF LIFE

Eight stories from the edge of life.

All are dramatic, and they comprise a variety of themes and subject matter. Two of them relate tragic accidents in the world of extreme sports. One describes how global warming brings about the end of the world… in the form of an Inuit legend.

There’s a horror story with a rather shocking ending, a gruesome tale of Gothic noir, and even a science fiction novelette which tells how a back-woods school teacher improbably invents a weapon that can sink an aircraft carrier in seconds.
There’s an element of the supernatural in the erotic story ‘Familiar’, in which the spirit of a long-dead concubine returns to haunt a father and his two young children in the wilds of Hong Kong.

But the centrepiece of the collection is Cutting Edge, a dramatic and poignant novella that tells of the disintegration of a mission hospital in the depths of the African bush.

A more comprehensive breakdown of the contents is given at the start of the collection proper.