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What readers are saying:
“I will always be more grateful than I can say for anthologies like this, that not only include some of my favorite writers, but also introduce me to work by writers I haven’t encountered before. Mooncalves is splendid, surprising, and delicious.” — Kelly Link, multiple prizewinning author of Stranger Things Happen and Get In Trouble
“Surreal and superb, Mooncalves is a narratively abnormal exhibition, with stories that both alter and accentuate fiction traditions. John WM Thompson has procured a haunting and often horrific anthology of literary asymmetry which will unease the unconscious.” — Clint Smith, author of The Skeleton Melodies
“These stories are wonderfully varied in style and subject; some of the authors are old favorites I was happy to encounter again, while others were brand new to me, and I can’t wait to read more of their work. MOONCALVES is a collection I’ll return to again and again, its stories strange and rich and marvelously mysterious.” — Dan Chaon, author of SLEEPWALK
What you’re getting:
- 23 original stories from 22 authors, all original to this volume.
- A sumptuous, high-quality sewn binding in 32-page signatures, printed by McNoughton & Gunn, on 60# Natural color paper.
- Die-cut blue-on-white embossed hardcover construction.
- Endsheet reproductions of original surrealist paintings by Justine Neuberger.
The Table of Contents:
- “December Story”, Briar Ripley Page
- “The Tomato”, Ernest Ògúnyẹmí
- “Night Fragrance”, Janalyn Guo
- “It Does Not Do What You Think It Does”, Brian Evenson
- “Butterfly Kisses”, Jaime Corbacho
- “The First Wife”, Lisa Tuttle
- “Beyond the Chain”, L. Marie Wood
- “Edge of the Forest”, Jeff Wood
- “Distant Signals”, Adam Golaski
- “The Stars Have Eaten the Costco Parking Lot”, Chelsea Sutton
- “Mirror Translation”, Meghan Lamb
- “Night, When Windows Turn to Mirror” by Christi Nogle
- “DestinationLand”, Glen Hirshberg
- “Seldom Place”, J.A.W. McCarthy
- “Pastiche”, Sasha Geffen
- “Three Prepositions”, Mark G. Mayer
- “Sundered”, Thomas Mavroudis
- “Remittance Man”, Daniel M. Lavery
- “A Good Thing”, Nathan Breakenridge
- “Privacy”, Steve Rasnic Tem
- “The Debauch”, Elwin Cotman
- “Contact Light”, Sofia Samatar
- “Honeymoon”, Jaime Corbacho