A girl moves into her elder sister's apartment without saying a word. They coexist in a state of strange tension; though she shouts at her sister, follows her to the university photography club and watches her increasingly haywire behaviour, the elder sibling cannot break her icy silence.Then a bizarre skin condition causes the elder girl to retreat further from the world, and the younger girl seemingly disappears - leaving the other's grip on reality to fracture completely.Infused with uncanny images and a powerful sense of dread, Negative Space is a vividly surreal and haunting novella, published here with the inventively creepy story 'Sacrifice'.



Kaori Fujino is an award-winning writer of fiction that reimagines tropes from horror, science fiction, Hollywood thrillers and fairy tales. In 2013, she won the Akutagawa Prize, Japan's most prominent literary prize, for the novella Nails and Eyes. Her stories have appeared in English translation in Granta, Monkey and the US-Japan Women's Journal.