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By Kellie Wells

ISBN-10: 0268102252

ISBN-13: 9780268102258

ISBN-10: 0268102260

ISBN-13: 9780268102265

Kellie Wells is a author of startling mind's eye whose "phantasmal stories," Booklist says, "shimmer with a dreamlike vibrancy." God, the Moon, and different Megafauna, Wells's moment number of brief tales and winner of the Richard Sullivan Prize briefly Fiction, is populated with the world’s castoffs, cranks, and inveterate oddballs, the deeply aggrieved, the ontologically challenged, the misunderstood mopes that hang-out the shadowy wings of the world’s major level. the following you can find a teacup-sized aerialist who attempts to ingest the world’s substantial agony; a lonely god starting to be ever lonelier because the Afterlife swells with monkeys and different inconceivable occupants; a father fluent within the language of the lifeless who has hassle speaking along with his residing son; and dying himself, a moony adolescent with a young center and a scarcity of ambition. God-haunted and apocalyptic, comedian and officially artistic, those tales provide lyrical voice to the indomitability of the typical underdog, and they're going to proceed to resonate lengthy after the ultimate has been read.

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