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"A revised and expanded version of Megan Milks's out-of-print cult classic KILL MARGUERITE AND OTHER STORIES, SLUG AND OTHER STORIES is a collection of fifteen stories that experiment in genre and explore the visceral, absurd, and queer qualities of gender, physiology, species, and identity: a woman metamorphoses into a slug; another eats her heart out; hair sprouts from the walls; and more"--
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IL: UG - BL: 10.5 - AR Pts: 12
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CLASSIC FICTION (PRE C 1945). Franz Kafka's 1915 novella of unexplained horror and nightmarish transformation became a worldwide classic and remains a century later one of the most widely read works of fiction in the world. It is the story of traveling salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes one morning to find himself transformed into a monstrous insect. This hugely influential work inspired George Orwell, Albert Camus, Jorge Louis Borges, and Ray Bradbury,...
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"With Life Ceremony, the incomparable Sayaka Murata, whose Convenience Store Woman has now sold more than a million copies worldwide, returns with a brilliant and wonderfully unsettling collection, her most recent fiction to be published in Japan. In these twelve stories, Murata mixes an unusual cocktail of humor and horror and turns the norms and traditions of society on their head to better question them. In "A First-Rate Material," Nana and Naoki...
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"A baby is born with gills. Foxes raise and then lose a human child. A man, in the final throes of his deathbed fever-dream, experiences a cross-Antarctic voyage. The stories find characters in the most unexpectedly menacing of circumstances, in which their sanity, happiness, and safety are put to the test."--
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An impressive and very funny collection of stories by Teresa Solana but the fun is very dark indeed. The oddest things happen. Statues decompose and stink out galleries, two old grandmothers are vengeful killers, a prehistoric detective on the verge of becoming the first religious charlatan trails a triple murder that is threatening cave life as the early innocents knew it. The collection also includes a sparkling web of Barcelona stories--connected...
6) God in a Can
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God in a Can is a collection of flash and micro fictions that looks at life through a surreal, and often humorous lens, at various societal behaviors, perceptions at a slant, and unusual scenarios. Paradoxically, the underpinnings, at the core, can be very real in the way the stories explore how we live, struggle to live, and hope to.
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100-word stories – for when everything else is just too much. Short on time or patience? Try a 100-word story! Filled with unusual tales about sea monsters, birds, trees, and of course people, No Surprises moves between humor, excitement, grief, and sadness-and everything in between-with effortlessness and ease. Life is unpredictable, yet … predictable. We all know where we're headed, right? So why not have some fun along the way? Pick up No Surprises...
9) Kaleidoscope
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As the French author Marcel Proust once remarked, the mind evokes endlessly changing thought patterns, much like a kaleidoscope. Reading Derrick R. Lafayette's Kaleidoscope: Dark Tales, a genuinely extraordinary collection of five short stories and a novella, is like gazing upon the world again and again through bits of colored glass.
What happens when . . .
An old gunfighter, accompanied by a Billy-the-Kid wannabe, arrives in a weird Wild West...
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The eleven stories in Sweetlust interweave feminist critique, intertextuality, and science fiction tropes in an irreverent portrait of our past, present, and future.In a dystopian world with no men, women are "rehabilitated" at an erotic amusement park. Climate change has caused massive flooding and warming in the Balkans, where one programmer builds a time machine. And a devious reimagining of The Sorrows of Young Werther refocuses to center a sexually...
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Funny stories you will either love or love (and maybe really love): Someone steals the last slice of pizza, and if the culprit is not found, gang war will break out. And so the country's top detective must solve The Case of the Last Pizza Slice. Terrorists steal all the toilet paper and hold the country hostage An Evil Wizard creates 7 papers clips of power, and One Paper Clip to rule them, and in the artificial light of the office, bind them. Made...
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A man wakes to find his arm has detached and crawled downstairs… The Paradox Manifestation Department saves a baby from a crocodile… A mechanic dreams of fame and fortune while working on a car infested with tiny clowns… "A collection of 29 character-driven works of flash fiction ... shows that a lot can be done with a very limited word count." - Kirkus Reviews In these flash fiction stories, Zachary Dillon exercises (and exorcises) his penchant...
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Talking fruit. Time reversing. A scheming liver. A lighter's journey. Vengeful teddy bears. Vending machine salvation. The Annual Meeting of Words. Everyone on Earth moving six feet to the left.
Escape into vivid worlds, populated by everyday — ordinary if you will — characters facing unique challenges... when sometimes the mask becomes the face. From horror to humour, Speculative to literary fiction, Magic realism to psychological dualism: Fifteen...
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Eight meta-real short stories that take place in southwestern Virginia and southern West Virginia are gathered into one e-file:
1. Galax_ Galaxy (thought interception in a quaint Blue Ridge town)
2. Charlie West (kicking about in Charleston, WV)
3. Fries or Freeze (a quick sketch by an old New River dam)
4. Gallivanting in Galax (a second round in the quaint Blue Ridge town)
5. The Race (a crazed boss and a nighttime off-road bicycle race)
6. The...
16) Little Clouds
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Little Clouds – Ann Orthur: Containing, but not limited to: Flic-Flac:A couple transported to a strange land, unaware the world around them is on the cusp of unraveling. They spend their days oblivious to the storm that is building. Their lives, if they manage to keep them, will never be the same. Their future changes with just one sentence. Soon after, their fate is sealed. Alien Invasion:Following a mistake a man travelled to start a new life....
17) Cows are Flying
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Dive into the uproarious world of 'Cows Are Flying,' a side-splitting adult comedy that defies gravity and expectations. Join Lily and a cast of eccentric characters as they navigate the zany chaos that ensues when cows take to the skies. With humor that soars to new heights and a tale that defies all norms, this hilarious adventure is a whirlwind of laughter, unexpected twists, and a delightful reminder that in Mooington, anything-even flying cows-is...
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A seagull, a goat, and a teenage boy enter into a bizarre love triangle that leaves one of them dead and the other two changed forever. A grief-stricken astronaut quits NASA to paint pictures of the moon. An eighteenth-century British aristocrat adopts two teenage girls and absconds with them to France, determined to raise one of them to become his perfect wife. By turns humorous and heartbreaking, this debut collection offers weird and wonderful...
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A housewife with a ravenous lust for the adolescent boy who mows her lawn swallows him whole. A woman nonchalantly hacks off her leg at a posh private club. A father baby proofs his house so thoroughly he never sees his wife and child. And a businessman passing through an airport risks it all to save a giant lobster from death.
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