The Boy With Nails for Eyes

The town Bobby lives in is a grey cluster of houses trapped against the sea by a half-ring of factories. Over the horizon, a war is raging. Any day now it may sweep over the town and crush it. And Bobby has fallen in love.

An original dark fable inspired by the author's experience of growing up in the middle east during the Gulf War, The Boy with Nails for Eyes explores and exposes the paranoia and tension that has crept into modern life, woven into a dream-logic fairy tale.

'The next day more crows came. More the next.

Soon, whichever way the people looked, the slates were clotted.

The town was black and white and red all over.

By day no one said it, but at night the people whispered pillow to pillow, dream to dream:

If one crow will sing a murder, a murder of crows will sing a war'