Collected Stort Shories

Collected Stort ShoriesA ten piece collection that puns on its own typos and describes itself as "ten of the stortest shories ever written." The pieces fold algorithmically generated language in with found and documentary materials: a fictionalized Bigmart employee rule change, a discussion about purchasing death, a Halloween affidavit, a radiation themed Christmas story. The method is the point. An overheard rule or affidavit, left with its own logic running, becomes the

the form of two people trying to reach each other across an exile that neither has agreed to

The novel does not gesture toward the manifesto

RED GIRL JUMPING is a fable-like memoir by Kim Merrill

while Jaffe was still alive

and the metaphor of the pneuma — what Darko calls "the breath of life or the destruction of life

It won the 2016 Kenneth Patchen Award for the Innovative Novel

thirty variations framed front and back by a single aria

The narrative method is the one the whole cycle runs on: dense interior monologue

That borrowing-and-refunctioning is James R

for nearly four decades

A father searches for a Bible and eats toothpaste in anticipation of his daughter's drowning at a seaside resort called Penal Port

Grace Murray compiled it as sole author