From an automaton of Nick Cave, to a man who can' t keep his blood out of the food he is preparing; from a vengeful Uber driver to a spinner of souls; and from a boy caught up in a robbery to a girl desperate to save a failing greyhound, the characters who populate this short story anthology could have dropped straight from a Nick Cave song book. These 21 stories, from some of Australia' s favourite creators, respond to Cave' s visionary genius with their own original and unsettling tales of death, faith, violence and love.