Room Little Darker – Junkies, sex slaves and ghosts (Paperback)

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Room Little Darker is a collection that peers into the hidden corners of contemporary life, where desire, shame, and power collide. These stories move through damaged families, fractured relationships, and imagined futures that feel uncomfortably close, each one driven by characters pushed to their limits.

A father’s influence lingers long after he has been removed from the home. A couple’s pursuit of control leads them somewhere colder than they expected. Addiction drags one man through a version of Dublin stripped of mercy. Elsewhere, voices emerge from places rarely granted agency, exposing systems that punish vulnerability rather than protect it. Even the most speculative pieces are grounded in recognisable fears about intimacy, technology, and moral collapse.

Darkly funny and deeply unsettling, Room Little Darker refuses easy distance. Caldwell writes with precision and empathy, attentive to the ways cruelty and tenderness coexist. These are stories about what people hide, what they endure, and what happens when private impulses are brought into the light.