The The Therapist

‘I am levitating above the curvature of the earth. Weightless, unencumbered. Flung like a comet out of the atmosphere to drift eternally along the firmament.’ In this bittersweet and hauntingly surreal tale, a couple finds the distance between them mirrored in a strange epidemic sweeping the globe. Little by little, each victim becomes transparent, their heart beating behind a visible rib cage, an intricate network of nerves left hanging in mid-air. Finally, the victims disappear entirely, never to be seen again. ‘I dreamt we were at sea,’ she says.

'Fearlessly confronting and challenging us.' - Dr Meredith Miller, literary critic and author of Little Wrecks

Nial Giacomelli spent his childhood between England and the US. He attended the University of Portsmouth, studying Media, before becoming a software developer. The Therapist is his debut novella.