Fiction. "Like wrangling elastic flamingoes and dyspeptic hedgehogs around wondrous croquet pitches, like rolling bocce with hair-triggered hand-grenades in a downpour of jazz-scatting jarts, Sean Lovelace's wondrous FOG GORGEOUS STAG staggers a mere mortal's imagination with the sheer dervished dervish tattooed on the triumphant tympanic page, the centripetal paragraphs parachuting marginal corridors of ruin, and the Rorschaching sentences slicing through the winded wind-sheer of everything, everything going everywhere fast. This is prose that out-Jesuses poetry's poetry. Reading it is to engage in the interval training of the syntaxes. The pant panting! The hypoxic breathlessness! The all of it that is the all of it!"—Michael Martone.

Fog Gorgeous Stag

Literature & Fiction

Lovelace, Sean

Literary

Publishing Genius Press

Fiction. THEY COULD NO LONGER CONTAIN THEMSELVES contains—but just barely—five chapbooks of flash fiction, including the winner of the third annual Rose Metal Press short short chapbook contest, and four of the finalists from the fourth. Dropped toddlers, attempted drownings, juvenile promiscuity, road trips, and inappropriate therapy sessions compose the multi-voiced family portrait in Dear Mother Monster, Dear Daughter Mistake by Elizabeth J. Colen. Yoga stalkers, guns and gold, babies with iron stomachs, drunkards with t-shirt cannons, and warlocks are the stuff of Do Not Touch Me Not Now Not Ever by John Jodzio. Dominatrixes and fetishists, face paint and goo, fierce parental love and perverse longings cohabitate in Evan's House and the Other Boys Who Live There by Tim Jones-Yelvington. Leukemia, meteorites, Wal-Mart, bocce ball, Charlie Brown's clinical depression, the language of talking crows and of Che Guevara's omelets fill the eggs in How Some People Like Their Eggs by Sean Lovelace. And smallstories about pretty girls who sit quietly and behave themselves (or not) populate the pages of Paper and Tassels by Mary Miller.

They Could No Longer Contain Themselves: A Collection of Five Flash Chapbooks

Miller, Mary

Colen, Elizabeth J.

Jodzio, John

Jones-Yelvington, Tim

United States

Rose Metal Press

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, and incidents have been fed through the elaborate machine of James Franco's imagination. Though passages relating to health, fitness, and creative writing do draw on the author's extensive education, they should not be substituted for the medical advice of physicians.

Nice Things by James Franco

Neely, Professor Mark

New Michigan Press

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