Portable Childhoods

✍ Scribed by Klages, Ellen

• Publisher: Tachyon Publications
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 147 KB
• Edition: First edition
• Category: Fiction
• City: San Francisco
• ISBN: 1892391457

✦ Synopsis

Basement magic -- Intelligent design -- The Green glass sea -- Clip art -- Triangle -- The Feed bag -- Flying over water -- Möbius, stripped of a muse -- Time gypsy -- Be prepared -- Travel agency -- A Taste of summer -- Ringing up baby -- Guys day out -- Portable childhoods -- In the house of the seven librarians.;"Emerging from a unique and powerful voice, this innovative collection offers a tantalizing glimpse of what lies hidden just beyond the ordinary, skirting the border between childhood and adulthood. Mysticism, heroism, cruelty, and compassion thread through these multifaceted tales-which range from the origins of the Manhattan Project to a culinary object-lesson, from 1950s corruption to a slight glitch in Creation. Collected here for the first time and including an excerpt from her breakout first novel The Green Glass Sea, these stories are timeless and delightful, chilling and beautiful."--B & N from the publisher (September 2007).

✦ Subjects

Short stories