Inspired by the Australian bushfires and the global pandemic of 2020, this small collection of easy to read short stories will give you a serious jolt.

A busy street becomes an eerie café. An unimportant man chats to his television. The best-laid plans for a green and vegan world go wrong. A man wakes up as a woman, or so he thinks. A plague party with neighbours. A bad-news addict, a doomscroller, gets his comeuppance. And a grandfather writes a book in code.

Sit in Café Street and sip the heady brew. But hurry. You don't have long.