Slipping down a rabbit hole at a costume party like Alice, feeling zero gravity like a spaceman kissing a fellow alien, or drawing blood in the library ... These short stories portray a reality that is often brutal, and probethe notion of personal responsibility – when should you intervene?Here is the lost history of the Observatory Library Lady; a swimming lesson for some Kimberley wedding guests; the secret tunnel beneath Beach Road in Sea Point. Part myth, part memoir, Cabin Fever details other people's dreams and terrors, and how they merge with ours.

Great stories invested with the passion, truth and quirkiness of the newest New South Africa. The stories turned out to be a lot like the rest of the world: the truths are both specific and universal.This is an opportunity to pioneer a new publishing platform that combines the best aspects of the traditional ones. Firstly, the anthology is in e-book format, which makes the collection available to anybody with a device and a hunger for good words, and also obviates the bricks-and-mortar costs of warehousing, subbing and delivery. Win-win.Secondly - and more importantly for making better writers out of the ones we have - it allows really decent, in-depth and expert editing by the omniscient Louis Greenberg - which is of paramount importance as well as a rare chance for younger writers, whose meaty but messy first drafts are often thrown to the public lions, but is often skimped on because it is expensive and because it takes time and because publishing is a business, not a...