Pet Names

A priest discovers God in a layer of lasagna. A boy speaks on behalf of the earwig that resides in his nostril. A grandmother creates Johnny Cash-themed collages. A church organist longs to become a bird. A girl performs Iggy Pop renditions at rodent funerals. An elderly woman doesn’t realise that it is most effective to end one’s life using a gas oven and not an electric one. Your mother spends her days cleaning urinals. Your father treats his foot like an ashtray. And you intend to become the type of person who cultivates yoghurt. Pet Names comprises eight loosely interrelated narratives. Each narrative depicts the nuances and idiosyncrasies of a generic suburban character whose need for interpersonal connection and self-satisfaction remains unfulfilled. The vignettes of each character’s daily life include the mundane, irrational and the absurd.