You Are The Friction is an anthology of collaborative short fiction and illustration. It's a small, bright red record of what happens when you introduce twelve writers to twelve illustrators, light a match, and run in the opposite direction. Twelve short stories inspired by illustrations, twelve illustrations inspired by short stories, all collected in a handsome paperback edition published by Sing Statistics. Watch the trailer.
Scott Campbell
& Joshua Allen
A lumberjack auteur turns his back on a woodland filmset beset with creatures, while a bet is tentatively placed at Finch's.
Oliver Jeffers
& Joe Meno
A practical guide to the correct uses of helium, and an abysmal warehouse rave leads to a bathtub tryst in Belfast.
Rob Hunter
& Toby Litt
Two writers under different forms of scrutiny. Academic surveillance, and the enquiring advances of a biographer.
Maxwell Holyoke-Hirsch
& Nicolas Burrows
An ageing star mourns his wilder years in the company of sea creatures, and a young man explores the forest.
William Exley
& Ronnie Scott
Two maps - for the tourists of Queensland, and for a father-to-be discovering his brother's sexual history.
Jim Tierney
& Ned Beauman
A tragic wartime mystery laced with the scent of lilacs, and a window into the writers room of Dragonblade.
Hannah Waldron
& Evie Wyld
Two quiet houses and their inhabitants. A nameless insomniac in the city, and a suburban Sydney widow.
Adrian Johnson
& Richard Milward
Two sorry young lovelorn gents attempt to deal with their respective heartbreak through voodoo and bathwater.
Carson Ellis
& Tess Lynch
A picture of newlyweds in the wake of a Russian honeymoon, and a wide-eyed revelation at a sewing circle.
William Goldsmith
& Michael Crowe
Two labyrinthine digressions about teachers. Howard, a former stuntman, and Lance, lovesick and obsessive.
Ian Dingman
& Kevin Fanning
A tender near-future story of a father and son, and a brief action sequence featuring Jennifer Love Hewitt and a demon.
Tom Gauld
& Craig Taylor
Two stories about grief, experienced by an astronaut under interrogation, and friends on a budget flight somewhere over France.