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  This is (not about) David Bowie...

  Freya Morris

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  First published in 2018 by Retreat West Books. 
  Narrated by the author and John Teal. 
  A surreal and quirky debut short-story collection inspired by David Bowie, which shows what it really is to be human in a world that’s always expecting you to be something else. 
  Every day we dress up in other people’s expectations. We button on opinions of who we should be, we instagram impossible ideals, tweet to follow, and comment to judge. But what if we could just let it all go? What if we took off our capes and halos, threw away our uniforms, let go of the future. What if we became who we were always supposed to be? This is (not about) David Bowie. It’s about you. 
  From lost souls, to missing sisters, and dying lovers to superheroes, it shows what it really is to be human in a world that’s always expecting you to be something else. 
  This collection has been inspired by the music and art of David Bowie.

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  Healthy Fruit

  Geo Mihalache

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  From the series "Stories for Vlad": 
  The tomcats try a new "healthy" diet - eating apples as the doctor advised on the radio.

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  Knots - Stories

  Gunnhild Oyehaug

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  In both precise short-shorts and ruminative longer tales, Gunnhild Øyehaug meanders through the tangled, jinxed, and unavoidable conflicts of love and desire. From young Rimbaud's thwarted passions to the scandalous disappearance of an entire family, these stories do the chilling work of tracing the outlines of what could have been in both the quietly morbid and the delightfully comical. A young man is born with an uncuttable umbilical cord and spends his life physically tethered to his mother; a tipsy uncle makes an uncomfortable toast with unforeseeable repercussions; and a dissatisfied deer yearns to be seen. As one character reflects, "You never know how things might turn out, you never know how anything will turn out, tomorrow the walls might fall down, the room disappear."Cleverly balancing the sensuous, the surreal, and the comical, Øyehaug achieves a playful familiarity with the absurd that never overreaches the needs of her stories. Full of characters who can't help tying knots in themselves and each other, these tales make the world just a little more strange, and introduce a major international voice of searing vision, grace, and humor.

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  The Evil Clergyman

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937), who wrote as H. P. Lovecraft, was an American writer who was acclaimed posthumously for his brilliant and influential works of horror fiction."The Evil Clergyman" is a strange tale of a long-dead, malevolent cleric who still has the power to reach into the present time and cause untold dreadful harm to people of today.

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  First Love Last Rites

  Ian McEwan

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  Somerset Maugham Award winner: Dark early fiction by the author of Nutshell—“A splendid magician of fear” (The Village Voice Literary Supplement).   Taut, brooding, and densely atmospheric, the stories here show us how murder can arise out of boredom, perversity from adolescent curiosity—and how sheer evil can become the solution to unbearable loneliness.   These short fiction pieces from the early career of the New York Times–bestselling and Man Booker Prize–winning author of Atonement and On Chesil Beach are claustrophobic tales of childhood, twisted psychology, and disjointed family life as terrifying as anything by Stephen King—and finely crafted with a lyricism and an intensity that compels us to confront our secret kinship with what repels us.   “A powerful talent that is both weird and wonderful.” —The Boston Sunday Globe   “Ian McEwan’s fictional world combin[es] the bleak, dreamlike quality of de Chirico’s city-scapes with the strange eroticism of canvases by Balthus. Menace lies crouched between the lines of his neat, angular prose, and weird, grisly things occur in his books with nearly casual aplomb.” —The New York Times

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  Some Men

  Charlie Weaver Rolfe

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  Ten short stories about men narrated by the author. Seven of them comical. Eight of them about terrible things. One of them happy, for variety's sake. One of them not in fact a story, just a sequence of silly noises.

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