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Award-winning stories cast an absurd, fantastical view of the quotidian world, with characters that twist the very fabric of reality.
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Gravity Changes
a tinkle is the sound of two things meeting but failing to merge
Joan Plays Power Ballads with Slightly Revised Lyrics
Children in Alaska
The Eating Habits of Famous Actors
Single
Cockpuncher
The Tunnels They Dig
When as Children We Acted Memorably
Use Your Spoon
This Next Song
One Has Hugs the Other Punches
The Loneliness of Large Bathrooms
Little Gray Moon
Extispicy
Unlearn to Seek
Undertaken
Sleeping Bears
My 9/11 Story
About the author
Zach Powers lives and writes in Savannah, Georgia. Winner of the BOA Short Fiction Prize, his work has appeared in Black Warrior Review, Forklift, Ohio, PANK, Caketrain, and elsewhere. He is the co-founder of the literary arts nonprofit Seersucker Live, and leads the writers’ workshop at the Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home, where he also served on the board of directors. His promotional writing for television won an Emmy, and he is a former columnist for Savannah Morning News.
Summary
Award-winning stories cast an absurd, fantastical view of the quotidian world, with characters that twist the very fabric of reality.
