Café Street & Other Stories

By Russell Kightley

Inspired by the Australian bushfires and the global pandemic of 2020, this small collection of easy to read short stories will give you a serious jolt.

A busy street becomes an eerie café. An unimportant man chats to his television. The best-laid plans for a green and vegan world go wrong. A man wakes up as a woman, or so he thinks. A plague party with neighbours. A bad-news addict, a doomscroller, gets his comeuppance. And a grandfather writes a book in code.

Sit in Café Street and sip the heady brew. But hurry. You don't have long.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Russell Kightley
• Release date: Dec 21, 2020
• ISBN: 9780994370495

Russell Kightley

Russell Kightley has been writing sci-fi stories since 2014. His books are philosophical science fiction / literary fiction / magical realism with a slice of satire and a twist of time travel. Often, they explore the nature of consciousness and reality, but they’re written in a light and easy style, often with wordplay. Russell Kightley, a long time scientific illustrator, lives in Canberra, the capital of Australia, with his wife, an astrophysicist, and his younger daughter, a science student. His elder daughter is a well-known model. Ollie the shih-tzu lives with him and features in some of the stories.

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