Speed dreaming
Subtitle: stories
By: Nicole Haroutunian
Publisher: Little A
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 137
ISBN-13: 9781612184968
Subjects: American Short stories
Description: Despite the coyote sighting in the park, Meg decides not to cancel her three-year-old son's birthday party. Instead, she tells her increasingly distant husband, Dax, "Bring your gun." So off they go to the park with a life-sized pinata, a gluten-free cake, and a gym bag concealing the weapon. It seems the other families aren't so brave-only one other family attends the party, and they seem blithely unaware of the risk. Though Meg works to keep the atmosphere light, her anxiety continues to grow. The spectral presence of the coyote, the rambunctious children, and-of course-the gun combine to suggest both lingering threat and the joy in innocent oblivion.
Notes: "Versions of stories in this collection have appeared in Two Serious Ladies, the Literarian, Barnstorm, Day One, and Vol. 1 Brooklyn." -- t.p. verso.
Table of contents: title: The living --; title: Youse --; title: Pilgrims --; title: Vandals. --; title: A cane, an anchor --; title: Local news --; title: The last unicorn --; title: Poughkeepsie --; title: Chem Haskanam --; title: Cassiopeia --; title: Meta Wall --; title: Speed dreaming.