We are all cursed…
No one knows when it was built. Even Ida, the building’s decrepit landlady, doesn’t know exactly when Crestfallen Estates was erected. It was like it had always been there, and that it had always been hungry for new tenants to devour.
An alcoholic copywriter, a med student, a recently married couple, an elderly war hero, a lonely barista, a disfigured gameshow host, and a traumatized author seek to answer the question that eats away at them all – what is it about Crestfallen Estates that consumes the soul of every person who walks through its doors?
Lauren Messervey is a writer and journalist from Halifax, Nova Scotia. She currently resides in Toronto, Ontario with her husband and lovable mutt. This is her first short story compilation.