Hand Me Downs

"HAND-ME-DOWNS was planned as a themed collection almost from the start. I'd written a story, "Thirty-Two Tumbling Teeth", only in retrospect, realising that what I'd been writing about was a sort of reversed inheritance. It was a neat notion and I wanted to explore it more. How ideas get passed on along with objects bequeathed by the dead to the living. The transference of personality traits and emotional baggage between parents and children, spouses, siblings and friends along with the ta...