REMEDY

Existential horror, mind-bending metaphysics and philosophical inquiry collide violently in a mushroom cloud of gorgeous prose and brilliantly realised characters. Breukelaar's cosmic reach is at once sprawling and compassionate, asking vital questions about the nature of choice, trauma, identity, and love. A sleek and deeply honest piece of fiction, Remedy is a rare marvel. Laura Mauro, British Fantasy Winner, Sing Your Sadness Deep.

After a monstrous claw comes out of the sky and wrenches a woman away from her child, she finds herself far from home in a mirror world. Traumatized and visibly scarred, dismissed as hysterical irrational even she finds others like her in a support group, taken from their world and those they love with no explanation, living false lives of those wounded in terrible accidents that they can't remember. Is there no hope of return? No remedy? When an apparent saviour appears, claiming to know the way back, some jump at the chance. But what if the cure is worse than the disease? J.S. Breukelaar is an American-Australian author living in Sydney. Her collection, Collision was a finalist in the Shirley Jackson Award as well as winning both the Aurealis and Ditmar Awards, and longlisted for both the Locus and Stoker awards. Her novels and stories have won, been nominated, or commended in international awards including Stoker, Locus Story South, Australian Shadows, Ditmar, Varuna Award, Wonderland Award and James R Tiptree Jnr. Award. Breukelaar's stories, essays, and poems have appeared in numerous publications including Apex Magazine, The Dark, Black Static, Fantasy, the Shirley Jackson nominated anthology Tiny Nightmares (Catapult), the award-winning Flame Tree anthology series edited by Mark Morris, and elsewhere including several Years Bests. She has a PhD in Creative Writing and Film Studies and teaches writing and literature in Sydney and elsewhere. A graduate of the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop (2013) she is also one of the authors selected for Bloomsbury Press's Women in Speculative Fiction (2024). You can see more about her on her website https://www.jsbreukelaar.com/