"Six insidious stories, as small and upsetting as an eyelash comprise Ira Rat's Hairs. Each uncomfortable experience leaves the reader squirming for more. To quote from the opening story At the Base of a Crucifixion, "(A)nxiety is still the highest form of art." – Joe Koch (author, The Wingspan of Severed Hands, and The Couvade) "'Rat somehow captures a fistful of psychic fragments from the ether and tosses them right into your open eyes. Every story is saturated in a recognisable contemporary angst and apathy - yet the prose is still propulsive, as if Rat's sheer dynamism of craft is enough to animate even the most jaded post-covid consciousness into a powerful metaphor." – Chris Kelso (author, The Dregs Trilogy) Part Raymond Carver, part Kafka’s fragmentary writings. Hairs is a collection attempting to exorcize every needless word from Ira Rat’s already minimalistic horrors.