My second short story collection, The Moon is Trending, was published by Salt in 2023.
SYNOPSIS: ‘This new short story collection from Clare Fisher explores of feelings of failure around gender, sexuality, and work, that rise in a success-obsessed capitalist culture. Dazzling, playful, and experimental, it veers between the real, the surreal and the absurd.’
REVIEWS:
‘Clare Fisher’s short fictions go a long way. She writes with humour and insight and real skill, about our bodies and our selves, and the world we’re in, and about the fragile net of thoughts that holds us.’ —Keith Ridgway
‘Short though its components are, it doesn’t do to read The Moon Is Trending through all the way through. You’d think it’d be easy to read twenty-seven very short stories in one go, but it didn’t play out like that. I read one, sometimes two—no more than three—in a row at a time. It works to be dipped into and out of. To be picked up and put it down. To be gone back and forth to. To be recommended.’ —JL Bogenschneider, The London Magazine
‘Sharp, playful, often surreal and just as often soulful shards of contemporary and queer life and longing.’ —Lucy Caldwell
The wordplay and structure of the stories excel in mirroring the meta-fragmentation of post-Internet/mobile/gaming life and late capitalist work modes, and the new, often distinctly odd, human behaviours that result from them — Giselle Leeb, 3:am Magazine
Given the emphasis on LGBTQI+ narratives, questions of what is seen and unseen, real and unreal, as well as what is said and left unsaid, are central to the collection and Fisher illuminates different lives with insight, sensitivity, and stylistic flair. Most impressively – and refreshingly – the author frequently does this with great wit — Rupert Dastur, TSS Publishing
Twenty seven bright and humorous stories, with sudden sharpness cutting through them — Mslexia Magazine
Clare Fisher 