Sometime's We're Cruel and Other Stories

A town where people go missing and inexplicably return as cruel versions of themselves.A not-quite-human mother races against time to build a new body for her ailing daughter.Lovesick ghosts inhabit the body parts of living people in a world where the only other choice is amputation.A woman takes extreme measures to combat the repercussions of a childhood hazing ritual gone wrong.Obsession. Selfishness. Cruelty. Doppelgängers. In these dark, speculative stories-six reprints and six never before published, including the novelette Girls Tied to Trees-J.A.W. McCarthy explores how far humans and the not-quite-human will go to tame the darkness in their world and within themselves.