Ursula Pflug

Reality burns away in this short story collection, revealing captivating, fantastical elements characteristic of Ursula Pflug. In this first collection of her extraordinary stories, worlds unfold like waking dreams where what was forgotten is remembered. The narrators accept these shadow worlds as their truth, seducing the reader into following to see what has been refashioned and lies waiting to be discovered.

Stories

After the Fires

Colleen Anderson

Playground of Lost Toys

Candas Jane Dorsey

Eating is a symbolic and magical act, a transformation, a covenant, a ritual, a comfort, a necessity - but all through history, food-themed stories have also had their dark sides. Food can be integral to the magic, the meetings, the processes of fantastical fiction: from myth and legend to high fantasy, from hard-science speculative fiction to post-modern magic realism, from Hansel and Gretel to Soylent Green, from Persephone to 2001, from Alice in Wonderland to Alien. In this anthology, Ursula Pflug and Candas Jane Dorsey, two award-winning senior writers of literary speculation, have gathered a range of speculative writing that recognizes both our attraction to the candy coating and our fascination with the poisoned apple. Paired with each story is a recipe, real or fantastical, for food mentioned in the story: consume at your own risk!

Ursula Pflug

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