Love and other Losses — Christopher Green

Award Winning author Christopher Green weaves worlds of dark beauty and sweet, terrible truths in this collection of fourteen short stories. Here are tales of ghosts that refuse to be forgotten, love that lasts beyond death and death that colors the loves we share.

With stories that play with the lines of Fantasy, Horror and Science Fiction, Christopher Green's is a unique voice in fiction that will bring the reader into strangely wonderful worlds where the reader may find themselves already there...


Love and other Losses contains the following stories:

Letters of Love from the Once and Newly Dead �" When the dead drag themselves back to life in a search for their one true love, what is to become of Thomas, a man who the world would just as soon leave behind… - Winner of the Australian Horror Writers Short Story Competition

Reservations �" Half Sioux and half white, brothers Charlie and Dan chose different roads in life. When Dan is killed in the war, it is left to Charlie to go to a Father he has never understood and tell him that his favorite son is gone.

Darkling - Marion's husband is a resolute bore, as much a part of the furniture as the coffee table. When she finds a creature that can feed on the memories she'd forgotten she had, the thing grows stronger...

There is no Wind in heaven - The key around Sarah's neck is her most prized possession, as she has absolute faith that it will open the door to heaven. What will happen, though, when a thing posing as a girl asks her to put the key into the lock?

A Crazy Kind of Love - There's someone out there for everyone. Even psychopaths.

Lakeside - Molly isn't supposed to go to the lake, so she does. She finds the body on her first trip. - Nominated for Australian Shadows Award

On the Breathing of Life into Ravens, Rooks, and Jackdaws - Kyle has fled to England after a failed engagement. Two of the people he meets there are not at all what they seem, but the things they show him on the way to the Tower of London hint that he may be meant for something new. Something better.

Holding Hands - David's first love was Emma, a girl with more questions than he had answers. They grew up and then, when the Vietnam War intervened, they drifted apart. Now that he is much older, she has found him again, and her questions still need answers.

Linger - The death of Robert's wife hit him harder. Harder still was the revelation that she had gone to a ”Visit” center before her death. Now, Robert must choose; ignore the electronic specter of his wife, or go to her and indulge in what can never be true again. - Honorable Mention in ‘Best Horror of the Year' 2010

Where we go to be made lighter �" When the new girlfriend isn't happy with all of the flotsam and jetsam our narrator keeps around the house from each of his failed relationships, she gives him an ultimatum; I go or the junk goes. He does his best to fulfill her request. - Selected for Years Best of Australian Horror 2010

A Hundredth Name - Karim is an integral part of an experimental space station. The work he does is vital to the program, but the gap his wife has left in his life will shake the project, the man, and his faith. - Nominated for an Aurealis Award

My Rough Cut - Nick loves Amy Elliger right from the start. Who wouldn't? She's smart, different, and those strange scars she keeps hiding from him speak of a dark past he wants to unravel. But who is this girl, and can he accept her once he finds out the truth?

Darwin's Daughter - With his brilliant ideas shaping the way the public looks at the world, Charles Darwin's deceased daughter returns, an ambassador for the species who the world will never know again.