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Flightless, Danielle Gorin
Flightless, Danielle Gorin
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The stories in this collection occupy a range of genres: realist literary fiction, slice of life, horror, magical realism/fabulism. While most of the pieces are short fiction, there is one short short, and one flash piece. What unites these disparate styles and forms is a concern with the everyday, with family dramas. Flightless is interested in exploring the dynamics of different familial relationships, particularly that of mothers and their children. These relationships, even good ones, can be fraught with expectations, guilt, and feelings of obligation unique to the expected roles of mothers and children, and my stories seek to investigate …
Leper/Cat, Bryan Halvarsson
Leper/Cat, Bryan Halvarsson
Theses
This novella is about an artist stricken with leprosy who has to spend the rest of his living days on a mountainside with a particularly large cat.