Tales of transition and initiation, of life-changing encounters and moments of choice, of people who stumble into unexpected love or weird magic or designer lawn scams.
The seventh volume of the annual Spoon Knife neuroqueer lit anthology features mind-bending stories from 19 authors:
J S Allen
Alicia K Anderson
[sarah] Cavar
Luigi Coppola
Julie Sondra Decker
C B Droege
Dean Gloster
Anastasia Jill
Nikoline Kaiser
Nick Mamatas
Mark A Nobles
Carmen Peters
Taylor Rae
Dora M Raymaker
Dani Alexis Ryskamp
Holly Schofield
Emily Jon Tobias
Heather Truett
Cirrus Wood
Inhoudsopgave
Prologue – Mike Jung
Sprout-Nikoline Kaiser
Crazy Old Broad in the Last Trailer on Row Three – Heather Truett
Dust and Darkness – CB Droege
A Child’s Stone – J. S. Allen
I built a tower of all my fears – Luigi Coppola
Preservation – Carmen Peters
How Space Fell in Love with Time – Taylor Rae
Vida – Emily Jon Tobias
Ghostlight – Dani Alexis Ryskamp
Faceless – Dani Alexis Ryskamp
Anechoic – Dani Alexis Ryskamp
Proof of the Existence of Dog – Dean Gloster
Grin and Bear It – Holly Schofield
Don’t Eat the Canapes – Alicia Anderson
My Father’s Skin – Dora M Raymaker
: Master Doc – [sarah] Cavar
Mrs. Sardonicus – Anastasia Jill
A Moment of Silence Before the Action Begins – Nick Mamatas
Her Experiment – Julie Sondra Decker
Lawn Moving – Cirrus Wood
Amber Hue – Mark A Nobles
About the Authors
About the Editors
Over de auteur
Mike Jung is the author of Geeks, Girls, and Secret Identities, Unidentified Suburban Object, and The Boys in the Back Row, and has contributed to the anthologies Spoon Knife 3: Incursions, (Don’t) Call Me Crazy, The Hero Next Door, and You Are Here: Connecting Flights. His books have been honored by the Bank Street College of Education, Children’s Book Council Reading Beyond List, Cooperative Children’s Book Center, Georgia State Book Awards, Iowa Children’s Choice Awards, Kansas State Reading Circle, National Parenting Publications Awards, Parents Choice Foundation, and Texas Bluebonnet Awards. He’s proud to be a founding member of the #We Need Diverse Books team, and lives in Oakland, California, with his family.