Companion story Big Sur focuses on the reality of the blots' personal experiences.A sculptor, trapped in a skyscraper restaurant when a violent coup erupts below, creates a perfect model of the town as it is destroyed, in A Scale Model of Gull Point A ward for a mysterious bone-melting disorder is the scene of a perilous love triangle, in The Bone Ward A house possesses gigantic human organs that consume the overworked graduate students renting its rooms, in The House's Beating Heart A curtain of void obliterates the world at a steady pace, leaving one woman to decide whom she wants to spend eternity with, in The Void Wife And many more that form Kate Folk's debut collection Out There deftly combines elements of science fiction, horror, and psychological realism to create implicitly political and feminist stories. PRAISE FOR KATE FOLK: 'The literary love child of Kafka and Camus and Bradbury penning episodes of Black Mirror' Chang-Rae Lee 'Disturbing, alluring, dazzling and creepy, Out There is a riveting collection that keeps you enthralled with every page' Claire North -A fleet of fake men called 'blots' is unleashed onto the dating apps of San Francisco, intent upon conning vulnerable women out of their data, in the exquisite title story Out There.

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