✍ Scribed by Karen Brennan
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Literal as well as metaphorical monsters inhabit this book of 38 innovative fictions. Here the reader will encounter not only zombies and ghosts, but a lyrical dream braided into a brutal and sorrowful real world. Monsters’ vision embodies the heartbreakingly private and depressingly public—and the funny flipside of it all. **
"Brimming with real and imagined monsters, Brennan delivers striking meditations on memory, time, fragility, and strength. . . . The majority of the characters in this book speak of routine, predictable occurrences. But these tales--some less than a page--are not conventional; they're beautifully strange and often surreal. Brennan introduces fantastical elements that dramatically transform relatable characters and familiar settings into something new, like a family adopting a talking cat. Brennan's collection of compassionate and intelligent fiction is a showcase for a very skilled author."-- "Publishers Weekly"
“Monsters takes the form of an extraordinary wunderkammer filled with narraticules . . . about what can’t stay, what was probably never there to begin with, and the beauty of that, and the biting loss.” (Lance Olsen, author of Theories of Forgetting)
Short stories, American -- 21st century
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