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Something Wicked Issue 05 (November 2007) Joe Vaz et al.
Something Wicked magazine is a Horror and Science Fiction short story magazine. Something Wicked has published fiction by John Connolly, David De Beer, Evan Morris, Sarah Lotz, Brett Venter, Diane Awerbuck, Miranda… More
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Nearly Nowhere Summer Brenner
“You should be reading Summer Brenner.” – More Intelligent Life, The Economist
Originally published by Gallimard’s la Serie noire as Presque nulle part.
Fifteen years ago, Kate Ryan and her daughter Ruby moved to the… More
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Asunder Robert Lopez
The unforgettable stories in Robert Lopez’s Asunder vary in length and style, but all of them devastate, all constantly cross the boundaries between poetry and prose. Here we have characters who are uncertain of … More
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All the Beautiful Sinners Stephen Graham Jones
Deputy Sheriff Jim Doe plunges into a renegade manhunt after the town’s sheriff is gunned down. But unbeknownst to him, the suspect—an American Indian—holds chilling connections to the disappearance… More
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All Over Roy Kesey
The debut story collection from Kesey includes nineteen stories previously published in literary journals such as Ninth Letter, McSweeney’s, and The Kenyon Review. The story “Wait” was included in the Best American… More
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A Tendency to Be Gone Pamela Ryder
Product Description"Ryder’s is the rare and wonderful prose that engages all five of the senses."—Whiting Award winner Lydia Peele, author of Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing
Pamela Ryder’s… More
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Shopping for a Better Country Josip Novakovich
Shopping for a Better Country is a collection of narrative essays on family, history, and travel from Croatian-American Josip Novakovich, a Whiting Writers’ Award winner and recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.… 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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THE BACKSLIDER Seán McGrady
The setting is Belfast in the 1970s. In a city in which any storefront might unexpectedly explode, Marius Moonston, age sixteen, is out shopping. It’s Saturday, and the streets are filled with danger and excitement—especially… More
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A True History of the Captivation, Transport to Strange Lands, and Deliverance of Hannah Guttentag Josh Russell
Like the Puritan-era narratives she studies, Hannah Guttentag’s early-1990s narrative is a chronicle of the strange places she travels—Nashville, Ithaca, New Orleans, Cleveland, Nebraska—the savages who captivate… More
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My Only Wife Jac Jemc
Ten years ago the narrator unlocked the door of a wrecked apartment, empty of any trace of his wife. As stunning as her disappearance is his response. He freezes on the facts of her, haunting his recollections. This is … More
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The Freak Chronicles Jennifer Spiegel
The short stories in this collection explore, both implicitly and explicitly, the notion of freakiness. They worry over eccentricity, alienation, normalcy, and intimacy. What is it that makes one a freak, makes one… More
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The Festival of Earthly Delights Matt Dojny
Hilarious and wise and fiercely original, The Festival of Earthly Delights is a no-holds-barred celebration of love, cultural differences, and one man’s reluctant embrace of the sensual pleasures of this … More
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Fires of Our Choosing Eugene Cross
Eugene Cross captures much of his generation’s fears and excitements with a collection of realistic stories that borders on darkness at times. His is a voice combining humor and pathos with an edginess, creating fresh… More
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The Housing Monster Prole.info
The Housing Monster is a scathing illustrated essay that takes one seemingly simple, everyday thing—a house—and looks at the social relations that surround it. Moving from intensely personal thoughts and interactions… More
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Anarchist Pedagogies: Collective Actions, Theories, and Critical Reflections on Education Robert Haworth et al.
Education is a challenging subject for anarchists. Many are critical about working within a state-run education system that is embedded in hierarchical, standardized, and authoritarian structures. Numerous individuals… More