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Black Shapes in a Darkened Room Marshall Moore
Black Shapes in a Darkened Room is a collection of witty, visceral, and darkly imaginative short fiction from the author of the novel The Concrete Sky.
Revenge and eroticism, humor and despair, the supernatural and … More
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The Concrete Sky Marshall Moore
While drunk at a party, Chad falls off a balcony and breaks his wrist. He comes to in a psych facility, under observation: His homphobic, obsessive older brother convinces the doctors that the fall was a suicidal jump…… More
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Pussy’s Bow Neal Drinnan
Murder, ghosts, and runway modeling. The basic ingredients: a wealthy 34-year-old gym junkie doctor with a taste for steroids; a pompous and tarnished English ex-pat with a master’s in expediency; a successful,… More
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A Pornography of Grief Philip Huang
In this affecting, harrowing, and darkly hilarious debut collection, Philip Huang explores the topics that compel us and terrify us: sex, grief, and death. Huang understands how powerfully we are drawn to these things,… More
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Without Anchovies Kok Yee Chua
Heart-rending, hilarious, irreverent, fantastical, macabre and one hundred per cent Malaysian, all at the same time. In these twenty-two stories by Chua Kok Yee writes about the mundane and the bizarre with equal … More
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Hong Kong Rose Xu Xi
In October of 1987, Rose Kho, Hong Kong girl who left home, returned and has left it again for New York to escape her life, reflects, scotch in hand, as the sun sets on the Statue of Liberty. Meanwhile, the Feds are ransacking… More
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Six Positions Andy Quan
Written with a poet’s sense of language and the quirky voice of an outsider among outsiders, Six Positions takes the reader on a frank and entertaining international road trip of clubs, baths, and sex parties.… More
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Through It Came Bright Colors Trebor Healey
Through It Came Bright Colors is the story of Neill Cullane, a closeted, conflicted 21-year-old who lives in two worlds, light years and a short drive of his beat-up VW bug apart. At home, he’s the dutiful son of … More
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Remember Tomorrow Tricia Merritt
When Alannah Greer’s brother Zach is killed in a senseless hit-and-run accident in Hong Kong, she grieves but has no reason to suspect something more may be involved. But when she escapes a catastrophic plane crash… More
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Trio Sonata Juliet Sarkessian
Janna, the bright, attractive proprietress of a cafe in Philadelphia’s city centre, is unable to form any real commitment with the men she has dated: her most intimate and emotionally satisfying friendships… More
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Ripples Shih-Li Kow
25 wonderful stories full of wit and charm from Chinese-Malaysian writer Sih-Li Kow, Shortlisted for the 2009 Frank O’Connor Short Story Award.
“If you were getting tired of fiction, this is the place … More
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Glove Puppet Neal Drinnan
Vaslav is a boy with a sordid past and a tenuous future. Born ‘Johnny’ to a drug addict, prostitute mother in Brighton England, Johnny becomes Vaslav when, at age seven, his mother dies from a heroin overdose… More
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News from Home Shih-Li Kow Kok Yee Chua et al.
Ten stories from each writer, 30 stories in all to introduce readers to three new Malaysian authors, each with his or her own distinct voice, each with a slightly different story to tell and way of telling it.
Shih-Li Kow… More
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Izzy and Eve Neal Drinnan
It seems forever that Israel (Izzy) and Evangeline (Eve)—a gay man and his woman friend—have lived together while the city around them crumbles. He’s an erotic cartoonist; she makes exotic jewellery and works… More
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Tales from the Court Matthew Thomas
A delightful collection of 14 stories by Indian Malaysian writer, Matthew Thomas, in which “… characters come vividly to life: from Eddodes, the creative and legendary builder of castles in the air and Boniface… More
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Tanah Tujuh Antares
Tanah Tujuh is what a large number of Orang Asli (the original people, the aborginals of Malaysia) tribes call our planet. Tanah Tujuh: Close Encounters with the Temuan Mythos chronicles Antares’ initiation… More