Product Description: At their best, these stories disrupt habits, overcome barriers of cultural perception to make the familiar strange through the use of speculative elements such as magic and technology. They provide glimpses of alternate realities and possible futures and pasts that provoke an ethical, social, political, environmental and biological inquiry into what it means to be human...read more

Product Description: These strange stories gather and weave themselves together into a wreath of memories, rife with an atmospheric and ominous creep redolent of Shirley Jackson. This eerie collection illustrates the disconnect amongst people and the places they inhabit—the gap that allows the supernatural to flourish...read more

Product Description: The tone and form of one's fife is what gives it shape. It is the voice that gives it meaning. In these poems that range from childhood in suburbia to life in the city, Halli Villegas chronicles the experience of the outsider and the observer with a freshness and candour that is unique...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)