Yes Yes More More

by Wood, Anna

• ISBN13: 9781911648284
• ISBN10: 1911648284
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2022-01-01
• Publisher: The Indigo Press

Summary

Two schoolgirls in Bolton take acid just before their English class. A film journalist shares tea and a KitKat with Marcel Proust, more or less, during a long train journey. An afterparty turns into a crime scene. Colleagues, maybe in love, have lunch and don’t quite talk about their relationship. A woman flees to New Orleans and finds unexpected treasures there.

In her electric debut, Anna Wood skips through the decades of a woman’s life, meeting friends, lovers, shapeshifters, and doppelgangers along the way. Delights and regrets pile up, time becomes non-linear, characters stumble and shimmy through moments of rupture, horror, and joy.

Written with warmth, wit, and swagger, these stories glide from acutely observed comic dialogue to giddy surrealism and quiet heartbreak, and always there is music – pop songs as tiny portals into another world. Yes Yes More More is packed with friendship, memory, pleasure, and love.

Author Biography

Anna Wood has written for Mojo, Caught by the River, The Quietus, and Dazed, and has had stories in the Guardian, the Canongate anthology My Old Man, and the 3 Of Cups anthology Outsiders. She has an MA in Creative Writing from UEA and has been a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and at the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation in Sozopol. She won the 2018/2019 Galley Beggar Short Story Prize for her story 'When can you start?' She lives in London. 

Table of Contents

Rise Up Singing - P.13 At the Log Cabin by the Lake in the Middle of the Woods - P.23 When Can You Start? - P.35 A Shania Story - P.47 Pussycat - P.57 Lauren, Our Path Emerges For a While - P.61 Love! Love! - P.71 Good Solid Obliterating Fuck - P.81 Lunch - P.99 Half a Point for a Good Guess - P.107 Chronicle of a Baffled Spinster - P.121 Wild Nights! - P.129 Sorrow, Borrow - P.139 Sex in New Orleans - P.149 Meeting - P.183