Antigone can see death coming. Same as all the women in her family, death always takes the form of a black dog, nipping at the heels of the soon-to-be-departed.
Only forty years old when her own black dog appears on her doorstep, Antigone isn't frightened.
Instead, she welcomes her death inside, and watches it make itself at home on her sofa. And soon, like all good dogs, it quickly becomes her closest companion.
Having death at her side, loyal and constant, is almost a comfort. But it also forces Antigone to reckon with the life she's lived, and the decisions her own mother made years ago when her own dog arrived.
Antigone comes to learn death is patient. And sometimes we live best when we're dying.
CASSANDRA KHAW is the USA Today bestselling author of Nothing But Blackened Teeth and the Bram Stoker Award-winner, Breakable Things. Other notable works of theirs are The Salt Grows Heavy and British Fantasy Award and Locus Award finalist, Hammers on Bone. Khaw’s work can be found in places like The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, and Reactor. Khaw is also the co-author of The Dead Take the A Train, co-written with bestselling author Richard Kadrey.