A young woman ventures deep underground to tend a great beast whose wellbeing maintains the equilibrium of her world . . .
A fictional character wreaks havoc on the life of the actor portraying him . . .
A coroner's assistant identifies the perpetrator of a series of gruesome murders, only to discover she must decide whether to bury her findings as inconclusive . . .
Moving among myth, folklore, speculative fiction, the uncanny, and procedural absurdity, Threshold Adjustments explores unstable boundaries, systems under strain, and the workarounds devised by people-and other beings-caught in between. Intermediaries confront the limits of their authority, familiar distinctions dissolve, and seemingly minor adjustments produce unexpected consequences.
By turns dark, humorous, absurd, and occasionally luminous, these short fictions range across narrative forms, enlarging ordinary subjects beyond proportion and exploring the uneasy residue left behind when the structures that order our world can no longer accommodate what confronts them.
