A Distant Feeling by Glaswegian writer Les Wood (not to be confused with his namesake New Zealand football (soccer-not-rugby) player with the
Wikipedia entry), winner of a few literary and poetry prizes according to his bio-blurb, is a contemporary literary speculative fiction short about loneliness and telepathy (more or less), free courtesy of publisher HarperCollins UK's Voyager imprint.
Currently free @
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UK),
Amazon (available to Canadians & in the
UK),
Kobo &
Google Play (both available to Canadians).
Description
A beautiful, poignant short story about two people who meet in a crowd.
Her whole life, Chrissie has been able to hear people’s thoughts. They come through the walls, follow her to work, surround her in the street – and yet, she is alone.
Then, one day, she meets someone who can hear hers ...