On one side of the forest lay the lands of psychological realism. On the other rest the realms of fantasy and fabulism. And in the long shadows of the trees themselvesâŚ
Three sons send their father to Valhalla in his old jalopy. A rusted robot waits on the stone wall by a childâs bus stop. An undertaker is one coin short at the river Styx. And in the bookending stories âAnything But Pureâ and âReceding,â a soldier seeks to unbury stories once lost to a winter of war.
Fathers and the daughters they find, girls and the dogs they've loved, and a woman from Kansas with a cyclone in her heartâeach discovers what happens when people go too far, love too hard, and take too much on their way Out of the Woods.
But will they learn from what they learn? Will they grow. And will you?
Out of the Woods is a short story collection by E. Christopher Clark. If you liked Carmen Maria Machadoâs Her Body and Other Parties, Lincoln Michelâs Upright Beasts, or Luke Geddesâ I Am a Magical Teenage Princess, youâll love this genre-bending blend of hypnotic fictions inspired by those three great works.
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