Difficult Spells for Ordinary People: More Covid Hotel Fables
For fans of quiet, literary weirdness-think Station Eleven meets Aimee Bender in a world where condos eat tenants and bylaws become spells.
A luxury condo eats its tenants. A Kelowna retiree slowly turns into Sasquatch. An Ottawa bylaw forces citizens to wear their trauma on the outside. In these darkly funny Covid-era fables, the systems we built-real estate, bureaucracy, kitchens, malls-start acting on their own feelings, and ordinary people discover their cravings, griefs, and compromises have become impossible to hide.
From Toronto high-rises to Okanagan cul-de-sacs, line cooks, retirees, temp workers, tenants, and civil servants are just trying to get through the day as something older and stranger seeps in-myth, monstrosity, and the kind of magic that behaves like workplace policy. When buildings sulk, recipes hex, and municipal rules rewrite your body, you either change with them or get left behind.
A haunting, slyly comic map of the pandemic's aftershocks for readers who like character-driven speculative fiction where the weird is a precise instrument, not a gimmick.
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