'They drink up the blood between our legs, the milk from the chest and pick their teeth with our ribs and ask for seconds.'A Casket Full of Flowers is a collection of tales of monsters and flowers. Blood and beauty meet in these short stories that seek to explore destiny, gender and what truly makes us 'monstrous.' While a fox corpse is at first a gruesome sight, one day plant-life, born from the compost of the corpse, will push through the earth and intertwine with the bo...

A mother’s own childhood experiences of bigotry are triggered when her son is picked on for the colour of his skin. Another mother pre-judges a parent at the school drop-off on the basis of her appearance. A disparate group of travellers on the trans-Siberian railway in the 1930s share memories of Chinese culture, history and politics. And an Australian-Chinese visitor finds herself both fascinated and estranged riding a subway in modern-day China.Moon Orchard presents a r...