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Very strong collection. Some of the stories reminded me at times of Brian Evenson. Standouts were the title story, and 'House-sitting,' The Bookcase', & 'Ekphrases' (which ends, btw, brilliantly). The others were fine, though a few went on a bit too long.
A few notable passages. I copied the second quote, btw, and posted it on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ to the author's page. This appears to be first time anyone's quoted him. Odd, because this is his second book, and his prose is very quotable.
"Brambles and branches close in on the house, and eventually they will fold over it completely, subsuming it, the way that a tree's bark flows over a nail. That is what the cabin reminds you of, in the end: a nail. Five rooms and a roof hammered into the heart of the forest, where they wait, with the patience of a nail, to become ingrown." -'House-sitting'
"Being in love, they had agreed in bed one night, meant being in a state of interpretive hysteria. Every detail was significant, polysemous, charged. That was why lovers had to be especially careful with one another, so as not to arouse suspicions. No literary critic in the world, B had claimed, was more vigilant than a suspicious lover." -'Za'