Kerəktərs, T.C. Kennaley’s debut collection, contains eight short stories: “The Movement” (a journalist in a dystopian future reports on a “brazenly individualistic” hippie-type movement); “Of Deplorable Nature” (a wealthy hedonist from the 1920s has to decide whether to adhere to society’s norms or stay true to his shameful nature); “Plenitudes of Fish” (a man discovers that his wife - who refuses to move away from the ocean - is a mermaid who is having an affair with a huge tuna); “First Love” (a young boy pursues a new girl at school whose father is away on business in a town called “Penitentiary”); “Grump” (a curmudgeonly old house is angry that it is once again on the market); “The Applicant” (a man struggles to find employment in the future because - since most jobs have become fully automated - the interview process for minimum wage employment has become fiercely competitive); “The Dawn” (a primitive man awakens one morning to discover that he has undergone an unsettling change, now burdened by clarity of thought and modern morality); and “Help Thyself” (a man turns to self-help books in an attempt to lift his spirits, exploring a variety of therapeutic approaches such as memorizing motivational quotes, urine therapy, and writing a letter of apology to his genitals).