To Light a Fire and Other Short Stories

Arran Gimba’s To Light a Fire and Other Short Stories is a startling collection of highly unique and powerful stories of the human condition, often taken to the most fascinating and unlikely extremes. From the imaginative and starkly unsettling Death is Overrated, where the blatant disregard for human life is explored with such sarcasm and psychological edginess that the reader is quickly pulled into the action, to the wonderfully unpredictable The Crush Can, where a simple marketing idea to expand college students’ dating possibilities turns bizarre. In the title story, To Light a Fire, an act as innocuous as finding a nail clipper leads to near anarchy in a town’s high school. These stories in this remarkable collection reflect all that is sardonic and terrifying about living our quotidian lives. Ten very distinctive stories, each one capable of standing alone. This is an edgy and exceptional must-read book.