โ Skyler Wood
๐ Fiction
๐
2019
๐ English
โ 78 KB
๐ 1 views
โฆ LIBER โฆ
The Gnome Stories
โ Scribed by Ander Monson
- Publisher
- Graywolf Press
- Year
- 2019;2020
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 147 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
An unsettling, wildly imaginative collection of stories
**** The Gnome Stories focuses on characters who are loners in the truest sense; who are in the process of recovering from mental, physical, or emotional trauma; and who find solace--or at least a sense of purpose--in peculiar jobs and pursuits.
A man whose wife has left him is robbed, so he decides to start doing his own breaking and entering, into his neighbors' homes. When another man's girlfriend is cryogenically frozen by her family after a car accident, he becomes a maintenance worker at the cryogenic facility, eavesdropping on visitors as they whisper secrets to their frozen loved ones. A woman serves as an assistant to the Starvationist, whose methods to help clients lose large amounts of weight are unorthodox, sadistic--and utterly failproof. Another woman and her robot assistant have been hired to tinker with the troubling memories inside a celebrity's...
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