Two novelettes published in tete-benche format. Roadkill offers a taste of the new full-length collection by Robert Shearman. Set in England's rain-sodden motorways and featureless service stations, it is a black comedy about love and the end of love. In Siren Beat, a minor group of man-eating sirens on the docks of Hobart would not normally pose much of a challenge for Nancy, but she is distracted by the reappearance of Nick Cadmus, the man she blames for her sister's death.