In the deft hands of Andrew Lafleche, the boundaries of fiction are challenged with inimitable abandon-A Pardonable Offence is a collection of short stories brimming with intensity and accented by an unexpected dark humour. The ten stories range from the whimsical to the terrifying-online dating fails; alienation amidst a bizarre and dehumanised world; a portrait of the suffocating oppression consuming modern life; a disturbing...