I dove into the longest delta I could find. I spilled into ancient waste and rowed to an incomplete kingdom of ends. Fatigued, with nothing to moor, it was only sensible to collapse in the marsh, down in the meandering lanes between reeds, into the saliva of the delta.

readings by the author and friends Thomas Jeppe, Aki Yamouridis.

Stray is a sequence of previously published short fictions by Scott McCulloch. Written over the past 10+ years and collected together for the first time, Stray assembles seven selected stories that take place on different bodies of water: a swamp, a lake, a lagoon, an estuary, a river, a floodplain, a sea.
Each limited edition copy is accompanied with personal photography and found imagery, as well as an array of raw materials—fragments, notes and drafts—that furnished the basis of Scott’s acclaimed debut novel, Basin (Black Inc. 2022). Stray also includes two extracts from Scott’s current long-form work-in-progress, Divers, a novel set in the Levant.