Hoopty time machines
Subtitle: fairy tales for grown ups
By: Christopher DeWan
Publisher: Atticus Books
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New Jersy
Language: eng
Number of pages: 131
ISBN-13: 9780991546961
Subjects: American fiction
Description: This mosaic collection will open up a hundred little forgotten pockets inside your imagination. Each micro fiction is a rapid journey to a fantastical place, with at least as many origin myths as stories-45 flashes in all springing from the author's lifelong obsession with fairy tales. Hoopty Time Machines recreates some of the feelings you may have had as a young reader, where anything's possible in a story, where anything might be lurking under the bed. A lot of these stories are about disillusioned people desiring escape. People who wish for more magic in their lives. People who actually want to find monsters under their bed. From Bogeyman reunions and voodoo dolls to an introspective Superman and godly affairs, this mix of wistful domestic fabulism tossed into the daily grind of modern existence is sure to make you reconsider your childhood fables and recast them with an altogether different set of heroes and villains.
Table of contents: title: Conestoga wagon; title: The interview; title: The atheist of Dekalb Street; title: The wallpaper; title: Intrusion; title: Goldilocks and the three boys; title: Sacramento; title: The changeling; title: Monster; title: Voodoo; title: Social media; title: Hoopty time machine; title: Stolen; title: The dinner party; title: The trolls; title: Fortress of Solitude; title: The Sacred Book of Salmon; title: The bundle; title: The bogeyman; title: Zeno's archers; title: Godzilla reading haiku; title: Indestructible; title: Blog of the last man on Earth; title: The Bigfoot hunter; title: The Fibonacci forest; title: Poseidon's net; title: Renewal; title: The well; title: The tired end of the party; title: The belly of the whale; title: When Ulysses returned to Ithaca; title: Snakes; title: Stella of the angels; title: The little mermaid; title: The signal; title: Sugar and stones; title: Outbreak; title: Underneath; title: Bride of Frankenstein; title: The 100th floor; title: The garden; title: Shiva the Destroyer; title: The legend of Theseus and the Minotaur; title: Rapunzel's tangles; title: An American dream.