The Hate Extractor
ALL THE HATE IN THE WORLD,
TRAPPED RIGHT HERE IN ENGLAND.
Hungry, delusional, and living like a hermit next to a gasholder that contains all humanity’s hate, Atlas Brown asks his reflection, imaginary academics, and a parliament of owls the only questions that matter anymore: will he go down in history as the scientist who sacrificed everything to save the world—or as the coward who broke it? And where the hell are his running shoes?
Sef Hughes’s debut novel is out
17th October 2025
Salt water
A collection of short fiction by Sef Hughes, Salt Water contains eleven furiously imaginative and off-centre stories that blend dark magical realism with gripping domestic drama to create tales that range from the hauntingly peculiar to the downright bizarre.
“THE LITERARY EQUIVALENT OF A DEEP MUSCLE MASSAGE”
“Provocative short stories by a writer who has a unique mind and, for my money, a brilliant one.”
About Sef
Sef Hughes was born in Stirling, Scotland. Since then he has lived in Edinburgh, Newcastle, Leeds, Pittsburgh PA, Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Robin Hood’s Bay and Whitby. He is currently hiding out in a quiet corner of York.
As well as being an award-winning creative copywriter, his short fiction has been published in literary magazines in the UK, USA and Iran.
