num_pages: 154
description: Like a cracked crystal ball tagged with black spray paint these discomforting and darkly hilarious stories unveil a past present and future of unexplainable yet bizarrely poetic prophesies and moods. In ninety-five flash fictions Shane Kowalski's Small Moods presents lovers dogs bathtubs hands jewels bananas peasant boys cuckolds Jesus dildoes shoes nudes cults sadness the movie Carrie and much much more. Can you imagine a love child of Lydia Davis and Richard Brautigan? How about Russell Edson's ghost having tea with Diane Williams? Reading Small Moods is like entering a weird and private room of reject fairy tales and goofball fables. It's a room that belongs to Shane Kowalski and he is welcoming you with strong open sweat-drenched arms. Don't be afraid. He made you something.I am in love with this weird gross hilarious beautiful book and with Shane Kowalskis cursed sentences which enchant you seduce you then drop you off in hell. Every story is a perfect little snow globe of sidesplitting misery.  J. Robert Lennon author of Pieces for the Left Hand and Let Me ThinkI loved Small Moods. Shane Kowalski's short prose pieces are surreal bleak sly and utterly original. Amy Fusselman author of Idiophone These runically truthful miniaturessome just outbursts of a few staggered sentences others in the form of anecdotes and parables still others reading like entire novels scaled down to just a clutch of hectic paragraphsare by turns sweet-hearted and ruthless loopy and doleful otherworldly and ribald but always inventively off-kilter and entirely on the mark in their raucous sweeps of human ache and ecstasy. In the hands of Shane Kowalski Small Moods is in fact a very big deal. Garielle Lutz author of Worsted
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title: Small Moods
publisher: Future Tense Books