Peripatetic Coffin & Other Stories
Riotously inventive and lushly drawn, the stories in Ethan Rutherford’s The Peripatetic Coffin bring into sharp focus both reality as we know it and as it could be. Lighting out into territories recognizable and foreign, The Peripatetic Coffin navigates landscapes and historical moments wildly divergent from each other, moving with brio between settings as seemingly familiar as a summer camp—with an unusually high rate of camper fatality—to a futuristic whaling expedition set against the backdrop of scarcity and environmental cataclysm, in stories that vibrate with peril and intensity.