from The Book of Disbelieving
“The Great Fish” winner of the O’Henry Prize
Our village is built atop a great fish, Ceta, a creature so capacious we have room for nineteen huts, lashed to her back with great belts of kelp.
The village of Hiram is alive with leapers. Some emit involuntary yelps. Some stumble. Some throw their arms and legs wide. Some do backflips. Some require a push. Some are solemn. Some leap again and again.
from The Walrus & the Lawyer (collection in progress)
“The Memoir” winner of the Calvino Prize for Fabulist Fiction
Her attorney had reviewed with her the contents of the deal, but when the official Settlement Agreement arrived in the mail, she read it front to back, and she was surprised to find, after an outline of the settlement’s terms and lots of legalese, a lengthy discussion of her personal history, which included details from her deposition but also many details that she had not provided to anyone, not her lawyer, judge, employer, children, or husband.
