Nadia de Vries: Thistle

Thistle’s father has been dead for twenty years. He passed away when Thistle was thirteen, and at the time she didn’t really know what death meant. Now, at thirty-three, grief hits her hard. And the world is slowly turning against her. Her furniture has begun to speak, and she suspects her neighbours are up to something. A gang of weasels has taken residence in her home. Thistle desperately wants to return to easier times, when the world was still kind and her body was innocent. Armed with a hard drive full of childhood photos, Thistle attempts to bring her old self back to life – online, where strangers love teenage girls.​