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“A Drop of Raspberry”
Csilla Kleinheincz
translated from the Hungarian by Noémi Szelényi

This is a style of story I was expecting to make its way into the Interstitial fold (as discussed in the “- House” thread): the inanimate narrator story, ie one which uses an ( Read more... )

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“Black Feather”
K. Tempest Bradford

I don’t know if Tempest is actually Ms. Bradford’s middle name. If Tempest was my middle name, well, I’d probably affect it for my pen name too. On paper, however, it strikes me as trying too hard-like Storm Constantine’s completely fakeass- ( Read more... )

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“Willow Pattern”
Jon Singer
Abstract and short. Almost entirely visual, in a non-visual format. Which is pretty impressive. And unlike a lot of the slipstream short shorts I’ve read, this one actually has something behind the pretty words, a meaning I can dig into. Singer shows ( Read more... )

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“Pallas at Noon”
Joy Marchand
This is what I was hoping for when I cracked this book. A story where I don’t have to talk about whether it’s interstitial or not because it doesn’t matter. This story transcends genre, rises above it-rather than trying to talk at genre, or batter ( Read more... )

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“Post Hoc”
Leslie What
A lonely, pregnant woman comes upon the desperate solution of mailing herself to her ex-boyfriend, but ends up lost in mailroom limbo. Another literal translation of interstitiality into physical form, and as such an apt metaphor for itself. Finding ( Read more... )

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“The Shoes in SHOES’ Window”
Anna Tambour

Balances somewhere on the cusp of Kafka, Gogol and Mother Goose. And maybe Zamyatin. Oh, all kinds of interstitial. I’m pretty sure that’s why it’s in here-because it’s a flagbearer for all things between the cracks. A story about the ( Read more... )

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“What We Know About the Lost Families of - House”
Christopher Barzak

I suspect Mr. Barzak may have been reading Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves. Not that this is that. But it is a sort of abstracted, more distant, simpler version of that. Told from the collective, rather ( Read more... )

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I’ve had a funny relationship with the Interfictions anthology. I mean, I’m in it. I’ve been writing its name on my cover letters since last fall, like I’m proud of it. I am proud of it. My first pro sale. It has probably shaped my perceptions of myself and the industry more ( Read more... )

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Dora Goss and Delia Sherman have made a Blogspot page to promote the Interfictions anthology. Which I am in. They even posted their afterword to the anthology for all to see. In which they compare me to Samuel Beckett. Woo.

http://interfictions.blogspot.com

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Consortium Book Sales (Small Beer Press’ distributor) has posted a blurb about the Interfictions anthology (the one that bought my story). They make it sound quite hip and cutting-edgy. Which I suppose it is.