
By Cameron Raynes
In those fourteen tales, Cameron Raynes traverses landscapes of remorse, pleasure and redemption. In a rustic city, a lady plots to wreck her rival with an act steeped in racism. A welfare employee is requested to secret agent on a colleague. And within the award-winning name tale, a taxi motive force accepts a fare he is familiar with he shouldn't: "They headed east, the nude hills of the Geraldton plains, stripped in their bushes a century earlier than, leaning into them on either side because the motor vehicle climbed into the marginal nation. in the back of him, Luke heard the gurgle of fluid sluicing out of a bladder and right into a cup, smelt the candy stink of inexpensive wine. Itoccurred to him that it used to be now not too past due to show back." "Reading the tales in 'Kerosene' will positioned airborne dirt and dust lower than your fingernails. Raynes's imaginative and prescient is hard-edged and infrequently downright brutal but it's studded with empathy, compassion and truth." - Patrick Allington