110 x 175 mm, 100 pages, Black and white printing, Perfect bound, Softcover, First published in 2023, Second Edition, 2024

“It seemed that instead of growing outwards as he so feared, the circles had grown within him, eventually killing him in May of that year.”

The shape of a circle denotes a totality and an absence. Like a magic trick, with the addition of one letter, nothing becomes something, a hole becomes a whole.

(W)HOLE, Book One is a collection of short fictions by Sam Watkins and Pete Phipps. The circles in this collection are littered across history, from the plans of French neo-classical architecture to a goon hovel in an enchanted forest. Beginning with a voyeuristic telescope maker, the stories descend into an unravelling of experimental prose, shrieking with over stimulation as well as approaching silence.

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