a short story that moves with the pace of a short autumnal evening. christina murphy's debut story on new aesthetic is a story about empathy and distance, about the intangibles that draw people apart and the thread that still runs through them. it's the story of a woman and her inadvertant experiments with people, rats - and herself. a narrative that flows easy without any trappings and the multilayered nature of its import comes through only after one has read it, like an aftertaste.
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