Daughters of Monsters
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| Rating | : | 4.87 (619 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0996782346 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 204 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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"IF you follow your imagination far enough, you break through into the center of your own heart. Tighten your Kuiper belt, sweethearts. This is a trick not many have mastered; Melissa Goodrich does it every single time." -BEN LOORY, author of Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day "IN Daughters of Monsters, Melissa Goodrich picks up the world as we know it and spins it on the tip of her finger. She adds a bit of torque with each story, and you start to wonder if it's going to fall. It never does." -COLIN WINNETTE, author of Haints Sta
A lonely trucker delivers two-headed angels as part of a money-making scheme. In these 17 short stories, a toxic cloud sweeps west to east across the country, devouring all in its path. Past versions of a man show up at the birthday party he's thrown himself. And, in the title story, a daughter of monsters awaits her coming-of-age. The characters in this collection tempt disintegration as they attempt to become their fuller selves, staring hard into the treacherous fog in their ways.. Melissa Goodrich's debut short story collection, Daughters of Monsters, is a raw and magical book of spells, an honest yet harrowing look at the wonder and threat of the world
A Hallucinatory, Exhilarating Experience Doug Wykstra With a variety of stories and flash fiction that range from the slightly surreal to the poetically unhinged, Daughters of Monsters showcases its author's range and skill. A poison cloud moves across the American West consuming everything in its path, juvenile angels are bred and distributed for some nefarious purpose by an agricultural corporation, a heartbroken astronaut stranded in space begins to edit his online dating profileMelissa Goodrich doesn't stop to explain any of it, but rather plunges headlong into the worlds she's created, encouraging us to follow. You can question why things happen the way they do, you can register som. "Charming and Unexpected" according to Reviewer012Charming and Unexpected The short stories in Goodrich's "Daughters of Monsters" take you from Point A to Point B by way of WTF in the best way possible!. . The short stories in Goodrich's "Daughters of Monsters" take you from Point A to Point B by way of WTF in the best way possible!
Melissa Goodrich grew up in a dome on a hill in Minnesota, and now lives in the desert with her love and lazy Holland Lop. Her stories have previously appeared in Gigantic Sequins, PANK, Artful Dodge, The Kenyon Review Online, American Short Fiction, and others, and she has a chapbook of lyric poems published