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Incidental Dreams from a Myoclonic Jerk is Joe Bugden's first published collection of short stories. 
The collection of thirteen short stories is inhabited by characters drawn from unexceptional circumstances, whose lives are touched by love and loss, by regret and remorse, and who are placed in small and domestic settings as an examination of the everyday, and as a metaphor for the universal and ubiquitous conditions of life.

Gem was a quiet girl from a loving family, or so it seemed. She was four years old and playing in the garden when her mother’s sudden unprovoked and brutal attack changed everything.A life of intolerable cruelty ensued and Gem existed purely for her mother’s gratification in a home where all personable traces of a once functional family had been systematically removed.An adverse event during her teenage years forced Gem to leave Lanebridge, so she fled to London to live with her sister, but the sibling relationship soon turned sour, forcing her to seek independence within the hostile depths of a big city.The effects of childhood trauma and present day issues forced her to seek therapy an...