From award-winning Australian author Chloe Wilson comes Hold Your Fire, a debut short story collection that will haunt you long after you turn the page. A steely mother doubts her husband’s guts and her son's capability, until a playground incident dramatically escalates.A young couple move into a house in which there’s been a recent murder, and fall under the spell of their peculiar, commanding neighbours.Two sisters are determined to detoxify themselves into perfection.A diver pushes herself and those around her to dangerous heights.Interspersed with these stories are lightning strikes of flash fiction: we glimpse a leopard in the apartment next door; plants grown out of a strange and miraculous soil; the spirit of a girl who’s been thrown down a well. Needle-sharp, effortlessly surprising and beautifully controlled, Hold Your Fire is a debut collection that introduces a fierce new talent.At each turn, Chloe Wilson offers a unique insight, a tear in the veil of our moral certainties.Her stories strip away the varnish of our decency to reveal the raw, fascinating truth beneath.