A different bed every time
By: Jac Jemc
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Publisher: Dzanc Books
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 163
ISBN-13: 9781936873531
Subjects: American Short stories; Short stories
Work titles: Short stories
Description: A thief steals the air from a room. Children invent a nursery rhyme to make sense of their fate, and a band of girls rots from the outside in. These characters stumble through joy and murder and confusion, only to survive and wait for the next catastrophe to arrive. Moments so brief and disturbing you can't afford to look away. Jac Jamc''s affecting stories mine the territory between what is real and what it means to create understanding.
Table of contents: title: A violence --; title: The grifted --; title: The dark spot --; title: Women in wells --; title: Marbles loosed --; title: Bent back --; title: Ratman --; title: The wrong sister --; title: Somebody else's --; title: Half --; title: Judgment Day --; title: Hammer, damper --; title: Unaccounted --; title: The crickets try to organize themselves into some raucous pentameter --; title: A heaven gone --; title: Like lightning --; title: Before we pass this way again --; title: The chamber of the enigma --; title: The Colleens --; title: Engrossed --; title: The direction of forgetting --; title: Roundabout the bottom --; title: Tangle --; title: Points on staying alive during that old war --; title: Felted --; title: Entered --; title: A willingness & warning --; title: More mysteries --; title: Twins, or ambivalence --; title: Prison windows --; title: The tackiness of souls --; title: Hospitable madness --; title: Prowlers --; title: Filch and rot --; title: Recipe for her absence --; title: Both fruit and flower --; title: Configuration --; title: The effects of rotation --; title: The things which blind us --; title: Let me be your tugboat king --; title: Alcyone --; title: The hush of the party.