Open Wounds: Short Stories: Zero Street Fiction
Autor Samantha Moeen Limba Engleză Paperback – mai 2027
Otherworldly, grief-stricken, carnal, and yearning, Open Wounds is a short story collection of ghosts, lost daughters, and transformation, drawing on the author’s Ecuadorian heritage. Each story focuses on a different set of characters who, for reasons relating to trauma or violence, are incapable of communicating with each other. Characters become rag dolls and nymphs. The person you desperately need to speak with turns into a wolf at your dinner party, then swallows you whole. The stories represent the lived experiences of queer folks who had to live alternative lifestyles to avoid the violence of their families. Featuring chronically ill and disabled characters who live in the liminal spaces of cities and forests, Open Wounds explores how we grow differently in safe versus unsafe spaces.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781496251381
ISBN-10: 1496251385
Pagini: 242
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 mm
Editura: Nebraska
Colecția University of Nebraska Press
Seria Zero Street Fiction
Locul publicării:United States
ISBN-10: 1496251385
Pagini: 242
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 mm
Editura: Nebraska
Colecția University of Nebraska Press
Seria Zero Street Fiction
Locul publicării:United States
Notă biografică
Sam Moe is an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. She is the author of eight books, including her most recent poetry collection, Red Halcyon, and her debut short story collection, I Might Trust You.
Cuprins
My Love
The Dreams of Birds
Marinated
Prism
Oyster
Sea People
Sirens are mermaids with knives
Ultra-Blue House
Rica
When the woman you have a crush on asks you to host a séance, you say yes
Hunger Moon
The Dinner
Pycnogonid
Mother
Open Wounds
Después
Poached
The Seamstress
Tidal
Parakeet
Goat Boy
Nymph
Obsesíon
Barracuda
The Night Market
A Fairy Keeps Track of February
Goodbye, Birds
The Forest of Dreams
Acknowledgements
The Dreams of Birds
Marinated
Prism
Oyster
Sea People
Sirens are mermaids with knives
Ultra-Blue House
Rica
When the woman you have a crush on asks you to host a séance, you say yes
Hunger Moon
The Dinner
Pycnogonid
Mother
Open Wounds
Después
Poached
The Seamstress
Tidal
Parakeet
Goat Boy
Nymph
Obsesíon
Barracuda
The Night Market
A Fairy Keeps Track of February
Goodbye, Birds
The Forest of Dreams
Acknowledgements
Recenzii
“Open Wounds is the work of a writer with a fearless imagination. These engrossing and haunting stories contain swearing dolphins, witches transforming humans into stuffed lambs, ghosts stuck in tiny dog statues, and so much more. Sam Moe knows magic, and she also undoubtedly knows the human heart. Lush, visceral, and fantastic!”—Bradley Sides, author of The Volcano Keeper
“Open Wounds asks the reader to sit patiently while Sam Moe transforms the everyday into something unsettling. It first captivates the senses, a smorgasbord of color, taste, texture and sound. Just when you’ve settled into something familiar, Moe subverts your expectations and you find deer fur growing on the back of your hand, teeth always tinted the exact hue of overripe gala apples, and a mushroom that looked like a marble you had as a kid. Moe’s story collection splits you tip to tail with its uncanny ability to unmask your mother’s wolf sitting in the corner, the way you’re human at night, animal in the day. With each story Open Wounds reveals your hunger, and you must eat and eat.”—Shilo Niziolek, author of Pigeon House and Fever
“In Open Wounds, Sam Moe gives us a world where desire has teeth. Bodies become birds and animals, houses swallow what hurts, ghosts interrupt dinner, food becomes both comfort and threat, and love is rarely distinguishable from hunger. These stories move with astonishing ease between the domestic and the mythic, the comic and the terrifying, creating a landscape in which trauma refuses to remain safely in the past. . . . Surreal, sensual, funny, and frequently ferocious, Open Wounds is ultimately less interested in the fact that we are wounded than in what we make from the wound. Moe has created a collection about survival without sentimentality, desire without apology, and the strange, dangerous persistence of love.”—Rick Christiansen, Pushcart Prize–nominated poet and author of Observations from the Well
“Open Wounds asks the reader to sit patiently while Sam Moe transforms the everyday into something unsettling. It first captivates the senses, a smorgasbord of color, taste, texture and sound. Just when you’ve settled into something familiar, Moe subverts your expectations and you find deer fur growing on the back of your hand, teeth always tinted the exact hue of overripe gala apples, and a mushroom that looked like a marble you had as a kid. Moe’s story collection splits you tip to tail with its uncanny ability to unmask your mother’s wolf sitting in the corner, the way you’re human at night, animal in the day. With each story Open Wounds reveals your hunger, and you must eat and eat.”—Shilo Niziolek, author of Pigeon House and Fever
“In Open Wounds, Sam Moe gives us a world where desire has teeth. Bodies become birds and animals, houses swallow what hurts, ghosts interrupt dinner, food becomes both comfort and threat, and love is rarely distinguishable from hunger. These stories move with astonishing ease between the domestic and the mythic, the comic and the terrifying, creating a landscape in which trauma refuses to remain safely in the past. . . . Surreal, sensual, funny, and frequently ferocious, Open Wounds is ultimately less interested in the fact that we are wounded than in what we make from the wound. Moe has created a collection about survival without sentimentality, desire without apology, and the strange, dangerous persistence of love.”—Rick Christiansen, Pushcart Prize–nominated poet and author of Observations from the Well
Descriere
Otherworldly, grief-stricken, carnal, and yearning, Open Wounds is a short story collection filled with animal transformations, food spells, and magical chefs.