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Beyond is an anthology of short prose about the future and all of its disorientating and perturbing possibilities. We present work that ranges from the parallax of the present - into imagined realities which call back with responses and warnings to the ineluctable churn of our modern world. Frequently dark, often humorous, these writings bear the responsibility of interrogating our conception of normalcy, and pursuing its significance in a future which may be closer to hand than previously acknowledged.

A feverish confrontation with the internet as digital palimpsest, a fragmented discourse upon its banal diabolical passions; hatred, humour, cruelty, obscenity, lust, and poetry - often absurd, sometimes sublime. 'Agonist' speaks to the maddening anomie of the technological present, teetering on the spectral boundary between tedium and inspiration, image and text, contingent and absolute...framed by our tenuous presence against the all-encompassing void.

Confused and unwell, alone in a faraway land, through blind luck, and as suddenly as one moment changes to another, an ordinary man is confronted by a serene epiphany. Unsure of its mysterious origins, he returns to Paris indelibly marked and foolishly flees to the South, where his previously staid existence is thrown into exquisite chaos. A poignant debut novella by French painter Augustin Cambau, THE SHIFT is a rare meditation on the still extant possibilities of spiritual awakening, amongst all of the banaity and tedium of everyday life.

A dissolute trust-fund kid living in Brooklyn reconnects with his estranged sister after her debut art exhibition causes people to go insane.An epidemic of extreme anxiety caused by widespread societal collapse is treated with a controversial and mysterious new drug named after the Maya underworld. A desperate man risks his life to seek sexual salvation from the queen of a ghostly castle who may or may not exist.These are some of the stories in Cursed Images, where satire and nightmare, the erotic and the grotesque, prophecy and confession merge in a disturbing and spellbinding alchemy.Cursed Images is a dream-journal of late capitalism, a Gothic tarot of desire and fear.

Set in Glasgow 2015. A man suddenly finds himself alone, but not for too long. Soon his attention is consumed by another woman - sublime, inspired, unknowable - and different, he feels, from those who came before her. His friend, arrogant and unencumbered, taunts him as they drift aimlessly from one hangover to the next amidst a landscape of uniform grey, pulsating lights and insipid rain. Between querulous despondency and abject nihilism - an attempt to capture the disquiet of the decade just past, striking at the heart of a contagious male despair.