Váried Parályses

A chapbook of short stories. Eight pieces that might be claustrophobic, or semi-hinged, or regretful, or vengeful, or sardonic, or evil.

? A drunkard commits armed robbery, armed with a venomous snake.
? An ecological event endangers a boy’s health; his mother is panicky, his father eerily unconcerned.
? A dying woman faces an impossible compromise.
? An ageing superhero worries for a future world she won’t be there to pacify.
? And more.

These stories were previously published in JMWW, The Denver Quarterly, Litro US Online, and elsewhere. They are collected here for the first time.