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?
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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 is a Scottish writer based in York, whose work spans literary fiction to magical realism. He is the author of Saltwater, a collection of short stories, and The Hate Extractor, his debut novel.
His short fiction has been published by Popshots in the UK, Litro USA, and by an underground press in Iran. Hughes began writing fiction after years of working as an award-winning advertising copywriter. Drawing on influences as diverse as Vonnegut and Atwood, his work ranges from darkly comic literary to ambitious speculative fiction. Sign up for his free Substack newsletter here.
