Anita Felicelli introduces readers to a bickering couple who use an app to track their fights in " Keeping Score," a woman who learns that an unseen lodger is in her home in " A Minor Disturbance," a group of creepy friends who sell jars of fog in " The Fog Catchers," and a woman who encounters a younger version of her own husband at her art exhibition in the title story. Time travel, as the book envisions it, happens all the time, if not in the way we're used to considering it.
Though these 14 miniature crises contain numerous fantastical or science-fictional elements, they are fundamentally explorations of this stubborn, very human attachment to things that cannot be ... A compellingly queasy feeling of unhealth and unease hangs over many of these tales ... The best of these stories tap into more primal anxieties and archetypes.
Masterfully unsettling ... I thoroughly enjoyed the mind-bending perspective of these stories, especially the final pair: one a personification of illness that will blow your mind and make you weep, and one an epistolary tale with letters between a scientist consumed by creative mania and her loyal, half-believing friend.
