We Bury the Landscape is an exhibition of literary art. Ekphrasis, collected. One hundred flash fictions and prose poems presented to view. From the visual to the textual, transmuting before the gallery-goer's gaze, the shifting contours of curator Kristine Ong Muslim's surreal panorama delineate the unconventional, the unexpected, and the unnatural. Traversing this visionary vista's panoply of "rooms of unfinished lives," the reader unearths and examines and reanimates-revealing the transcendent uncanniness that subsists underfoot.

We Bury the Landscape

Literature & Fiction

Muslim, Kristine Ong

Literary

Queen's Ferry Press

“Rich word choices and settings that blend speculative concepts with quotidian reality highlight this stellar anthology of prose and poetry.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY “One of those rare long-term survivors of the small-press landscape. . . contributes mightily to the health of our genre.” —LOCUS ONLINE Assembled from the second year of the digital journal MYTHIC DELIRIUM and recast in an artfully arranged anthology, this latest offering from editors Mike and Anita Allen will introduce you to harrowing deserts and vengeful waters, to quantum mythology and edible religion, to slipstream explorations of love and identity. Publisher and editor Mike Allen writers in his introduction, “If you’re on a quest for the weird, lowercase, here is a book where you can find it. And likely The Weird as well.” This international anthology of beautiful prose and strange verse features Saira Ali, Michele Bannister, Alicia Cole, Jeannine Hall Gailey, Gwynne Garfinkle, Brady Golden, Adam Howe, John Philip Johnson, Jamie Killen, Swapna Kishore, Margo Lanagan, Geoffrey A. Landis, Nathaniel Lee, Rose Lemberg, Livia Llewellyn, Valya Dudycz Lupescu, C.S. MacCath, Alex Dally MacFarlane, Lynette Mejía, Virginia M. Mohlere, Sunny Moraine, Kristine Ong Muslim, Dominik Parisien, Jessy Randall, Wendy Rathbone, Sonya Taaffe, Shveta Thakrar, Natalia Theodoridou, Sheree Renée Thomas and Jane Yolen. Cover art by Hugo Award winner Galen Dara.

Mythic Delirium: Volume Two: an international anthology of prose and verse

Lanagan, Margo

Llewellyn, Livia

MacFarlane, Alex Dally

Thomas, Sheree Renée

Gailey, Jeannine Hall

Thakrar, Shveta

Lupescu, Valya Dudycz

Taaffe, Sonya

Howe, Adam

Rathbone, Wendy

Moraine, Sunny

Landis, Geoffrey A.

YOLEN, JANE

MacCath, C.S.

Kishore, Swapna

Mohlere, Virginia M.

Parisien, Dominik

Johnson, John Philip

Lynette Mejia

United States

Mythic Delirium Books

With a foreword by Gina Apostol. "As a Filipino who dreams in Waray, I have waited too long for Ulir t." A groundbreaking survey of contemporary Philippine short fiction across seven different languages. TimeOut's 14 new books we're excited to read. ArtsEquator's Hot List. A man grows mushrooms from his nostrils, a town elects three mayors at the same time, a woman gives birth to a snake, and a boy wonders if his soldier father is an aswang. Ulir t: Best Contemporary Stories in Translation from the Philippines offers alternative visions of the islands beyond poverty and paradise. A vital survey of the richness and diversity of modern Philippine short stories, Ulira&#769; tfeatures fiction from Filipino, Cebuano, Hiligaynon, Ilocano, Waray, Kinaray-a, and Akeanon translated into English for the first time for international audiences. Vigorous writing from Filipino writers living in different parts of the archipelago re-animate Duterte's Philippines, dramatizing everything from the drug wars, widespread corruption, and environmental degradation in surprisingly surreal and illuminating ways. Tagalog for "consciousness," the anthology champions a more expansive, nuanced conception of Filipino literature beyond the confines of English-language Filipino literature.

Ulirát: Best Contemporary Stories in Translation from the Philippines

Gaudy Boy Translates

Pellucid Lunacy was the first anthology by Written Backwards, and the recipient of both the International Book Award and USA News "Best Book" Award. This second edition contains twenty tales of psychological horror, with new cover and interior design by Michael Bailey, editor of the original edition.

Pellucid Lunacy

McQuiston, Rick

Burge, Weldon

Larson, Amanda

French, Aaron J.

Zumpe, Lee Clark

Johnson, Erik T.

Storm, Kia

Written Backwards

This collection by Kristine Ong Muslim, an author from the Philippines, gathers nine delicate miniatures told with a post-modern and surreal touch - like macro photographs of the world's end.

The Drone Outside

Genre Fiction

Eibonvale Press

Watching the end of the world through the cracks. Small windows on massive events – on a doomed civilization drawing its last breaths.  A sense of universal decay and collapse conveyed in the smallest of canvasses.This collection by Kristine Ong Muslim, an author from the Philippines, gathers nine delicate miniatures that pack a strong emotional punch. Stylistically they are rooted in apocalyptic sci-fi and supernatural horror but they are told with a post-modern and surreal touch – like macro photographs of the world's end. 

What if the end of man is not caused by some cataclysmic event, but by the nature of humans themselves? In Age of Blight, a young scientist's harsh and unnecessary experiments on monkeys are recorded for posterity; children are replaced by their doppelgangers, which emerge like flowers in their backyards; and two men standing on opposing cliff faces bear witness to each other's terrifying ends. Age of Blight explores a kind of post-future, in which the human race is finally abandoned to the end of its history. Muslim's poetic vignettes explore the nature of dystopia itself, often to darkly humorous effect, as when the spirit of Laika (the Russian space dog that perished on Sputnik 2) tries to befriend a satellite, or when Beth, the narrator's older sister, returns from the dead. The collection is illustrated throughout by the charcoal drawings of RISD artist Alessandra Hogan. In haunting and precise prose, Kristine Ong Muslim posits that humanity's downfall will be both easily preventable and terrifyingly inevitable, for it depends on only one thing: human nature.

Age of Blight: Stories

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

The Unnamed Press

The stories and non-stories in Kristine Ong Muslim’s Butterfly Dream avow mutilation as rebirth, ruin as indestructibility, and safety as an illusion. In “Artificial Life,” a girl is persistent in her belief that her doll will soon come to life. “The Six Mutations of Jerome” documents the grotesque transformations of an everyman named Jerome, while “The Lonely People” follows a group of individuals fleeing from the accoutrements of the modern world as manifested by carnivorous floors and a marauding giant worm. Part travelogue on the vagaries of human consciousness, Butterfly Dream is a glimpse into a reality marred by causal logic and wakefulness.

Butterfly Dream

Fantasy

Snuggly Books

Mannequin: Tales of Wood Made Flesh

Padgett, Jon

Gavin, Richard

James, Austin

Wehunt, Michael

Day, Nicholas

Burnett, Justin A.

Tea, William

Casey, S. E.

Campbell, Ramsey

Silent Motorist Media

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