Short Fiction

Magical Objects

Magical Objects is a weirdo collection of flash and short fiction drawing from fabulism and the magical power of metaphor. It’s genre-bendy, queer, dark, whimsical, and ridiculous. It is a fairy tale of growing up with books and fairy tales. It is about words, identity, and broken, smart-assy girls learning how to draw strength from their scars.

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What Blooms in the Dark

The stories in What Blooms in the Dark imagine worlds where nature is magic, queer love transcends universes, and relationships pulse with the fear of inevitable grief. Capitalism preserves ghosts and produces cyborgs. Women are inspired by cicadas’ screaming songs and sparrows that transform into light.

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The Monsters Are Here

The thirty stories in this collection can be described as Kelly Link meets Bram Stoker and Nathaniel Hawthorne in a forest or an alternative universe with aliens. The stories rely on both humor and terror to capture the reader’s attention.

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Throwaway Stories

Reminiscent of the styles of Lorrie Moore and Raymond Carver, Throwaway Stories is a collection of modern American fiction about the small moments that define our lives. Rich with irony, humor, and some darkness, these stories are about the choices we make, and how we justify them to ourselves.

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Dating Silky Maxwell

From a rundown coal country dog track to a glittering Washington, DC highrise, Butler brings to life a chorus of passionate, damaged characters who leave their pasts behind and reinvent themselves until their mistakes no longer define them.

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Proof of Life

Proof of Life examines small moments in the lives of normal people who struggle with the same foibles and baggage we all possess. This focus on human interaction—the things people do for and to one another—captures the human condition in stark contrasts and in every shade of gray.

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Wolfsong

Through a series of flash narratives, Kathryn Silver-Hajo’s powerful debut story collection, Wolfsong, draws us irresistibly into the lives of a constellation of female characters. 

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For What Ails You

A flash collection about Black femmes and new conjure women who take MARTA and battle a multiverse of woes, racism, and generational trauma. They have the water, the juice, and the juju, and they’re healing each other through the powers of food, prayer, sex, and other un/known medicinals

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