Electricity & other dreams
By: short stories by Micah Dean Hicks
Publisher: New American Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Milwaukee, Wis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780984943944
Subjects: American Short stories; American Speculative fiction; Kurzgeschichte; Amerikanisches Englisch
Other titles: Electricity and other dreams
Work titles: Short stories
Description: "The beguiling stories in Electricity & Other Dreams are in their own category, which might be described as Southern gothic meets tall tale meets dirty realism. In these magical yet down-to-earth stories we meet an old man made out of cans, an electrician who makes light simply by touching a bulb, a weatherman who arranges his own weather, a plumber who also gets rid of ghosts. Fortune cookie fortunes actually come true, alligators work in a factory, and Japanese warlords battle on a jet plane. And then there's the killer crawfish. Every story in this fantastic collection is gorgeously gritty and lots of fun..."-- Amazon.
Table of contents: title: The time of the wolf --; title: The alligators' gods --; title: Crawfish noon --; title: The sister's war --; title: Ladybaby's chickens --; title: Where the electrician went --; title: The miracles of Benny Carr --; title: The insulting of warlord Reishi --; title: When the plumber drank the ghosts --; title: Railroad burial --; title: How the weatherman beat the storm --; title: A famine of music --; title: The butcher's chimes --; title: Cleaning the fleaboy --; title: In a city --; title: The lost loves of Danny Lowe --; title: The stickman's cages --; title: The hairdresser, the giant, and the King of Roses --; title: Gun juggling --; title: Ash flowers --; title: Bluebeard's daughter --; title: Oldjohn's house --; title: Watermelon seeds --; title: Dessa and the can hermit --; title: How the weaver's wife killed the motorcycle man --; title: Dog summer.