If phones and social media has scrambled our brains and melted our attention span, why haven't novellas had a resurgence? They're meatier than a short story and still short enough for us bipedal surface dwellers to finish in one sitting. So where have all of the novellas gone? Throbbing Tales made a space this year to highlight the novella format. This year's model contains a wide variety of work, coming at you from every angle. We've got weird, we've got exciting, we've got poignent, we've got cannibals and sex-bots and wizards and werewolves. Time to unzip, then zip it right back up, because it's about to get weird...