Go inside Dora’s troubling world for your next winter read

Eliza Clark, the bestselling author of Boy Parts and Penance, is back with her first collection of short stories. She’s Always Hungry, out now, is stuffed full of troubling and surreal tales that explore desperation and desire, all with one common theme: a hunger for something out of reach. Read on for an extract from ‘The Company Man’, which follows a woman living under a new identity, who is being pursued by a mysterious man…

The dream starts like this… I am wading through knee-deep snow. Everything below the knee is numb, my flesh like sponge around the bone. It is night. My skin is as blue as my dress. The snow, too, is blue and studded with crystals and glittering in the moonlight. I fall. I push on. My destination is the red tent some way ahead of me. Wind carries its music to my ears. I had this dream for years before I made it to the tent. Every night I got a few yards closer. Even now, there will be nights when I die in the snow. Tonight, I reach the tasselled flap of the tent. I smell straw and smoke and animal shit. I pull it back – and I wake up…

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Cosmopolitan UK (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2024/January 2025

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