Sacraments for the Unfit
Sacraments for the Unfit
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The isolation of the
COVID-19 pandemic brought out the ritualist in many of us. In this collection
of contemporary weird short fiction, a variety of different persons and beings
try to fill up their days in varying states of isolation and mystery, real or
imaginary. An angel outlives the Apparat that used to employ him; a deity
complains about no longer feeling seen; a museum curator living alone begins to
inexplicably alter; a medievalist suffering from vision loss gets into a
strange relationship with the ghost of the codicologist M. R. James; enigmatic
objects begin to work themselves out of the ground by the grave of the
philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, prompting scholarly speculation. Sacraments
For the Unfit is a series of vignettes about the transformations that can
happen while staying in place