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Origins and Other Stories Angela Woodward
Winner of the 2015 Collagist Chapbook Contest. Provincial cineastes sit down to a hundred-year-long movie. The reader of an immense Hungarian novel descends the quiet corridors of its pages. An amateur archaeologist… More
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IF YOU [ ]: FABULA, FANTASY, F**KERY, HOPE aut
A relationship ends in the space between [ ]. Abe Lincoln and Edgar Allan Poe Two stroll the river in the afterlife, debating a second death. Two boys navigate jazz, baseball, and growing up in the second between the pitch… More
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In the Event of Contact Ethel Rohan
In the Event of Contact chronicles characters profoundly affected by physical connection, or its lack. Among them, a scrappy teen vies to be the next Sherlock Holmes; an immigrant daughter must defend her decision… More
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Further Adventures in the Restless Universe Raffel Dawn
The twenty-one stories in Further Adventures in the Restless Universe are about fathers, daughters, mothers, sisters, husbands, wives, strangers, lovers, sons, neighbors, kings, death, faith, astronomical… More
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Homesick Nino Cipri
Dark, irreverent, and truly innovative, the nine speculative stories in Homesick meditate on the theme of home and our estrangement from it, and what happens when the familiar suddenly shifts into the uncanny. In… More
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A Night at the Movies Robert Coover
Previews, coming attractions, horror, romance, mystery, even intermissions–you name the type of movie and there’s a fiction within this collection to cover it–all written with the exuberance… More
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Misfits and Other Heroes Suzanne Burns
Suzanne Burns’ Misfits and Other Heroes is a wickedly insightful, brilliantly constructed collection of fourteen stories which are at once fearless and full of hope. In tales of the familiar turned on their heads,… More
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Movie Stars Jack Pendarvis
These stories are linked by humor, setting, themes, and recurring characters—cat lovers, murderers, gamblers, ghosts, and fools—but mostly by the movie stars, gods, and goddesses who look down on us struggling mortals… More
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Movieola! John Domini
With the wit of Steve Erickson’s Zeroville and the inventive spirit of Italo Calvino’s Cosmicomics, John Domini offers a collection at once comical and moving, care- fully suspended between a game of language and a … More
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My Date with Neanderthal Woman David Galef
David Galef’s My Date with Neanderthal Woman, the winner of Dzanc Books’ first Short Story Collection Competition, responds to these and other questions: thirty-three visions of lives that—let’s hope—are far from… More
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My Life as a Mermaid Jen Grow
This debut collection stares down the dark side of what it means to live ‘happily ever after.’ The characters — among them, a suburban wife, an alcoholic mother, two homeless men, and an injured veteran — grapple with … More
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Neighbors of Nothing Jason Ockert
Neighbors of Nothing examines characters who find themselves searching for new identities in worlds they no longer recognize. Through odd, compelling, and sometimes futile gestures, these characters struggle… More
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If I Knew the Way, I Would Take You Home Dave Housley
A KISS cover-band leader pondering a fertility-driven criminal act, a boy watching his hair-metal dad search for love on reality TV, a quiet teenage metalhead stumbling into her own voice while trailing her former … More
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Pricksongs and Descants Robert Coover
Pricksongs & Descants, originally published in 1969, is a virtuoso performance that established its author – already a William Faulkner Award winner for his first novel – as a writer of enduring … More
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Rabbit Punches Jason Ockert
Riotously funny, beautifully written, and charged with emotional intelligence, this well-crafted debut investigates the world from the fringe through characters who stray so far from convention they seem to inhabit… More
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Rock and Roll Heaven T.C. Boyle
A trio of uncollected stories from early in T. C. Boyle’s career, Rock and Roll Heaven shows all of the qualities that had people excited about Boyle from the beginning—great ideas, dazzling writing full of wit, black… More