I Hope You're Happy (A thunderous first collection of stories) - Marni Appleton

Exceptional short stories featuring young millennial women, blending dark fantasy and quasi-horror with humour and intellectual dash. Announcing the arrival of a major talent, I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY is more a warning than a wish. Photos of women eating go viral, a cookie communicates a threat, and women working dead-end jobs become entangled in the performances around them. Everyday experiences of friendship, family, dating and desire catapult the reader into a creepy vortex of horror. Characters reveal themselves in slippery glimpses, through positive affirmations, social media accounts and secret appetites. With this collection of haunting and haunted stories, Marni Appleton immerses us in a world of fleeting encounters, empty couplings, break ups, bust ups, threesomes and ghosts, giving us a kaleidoscopic overview of twenty-first century life.