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01768aam a2200241 a 4500 001 F9188CC2B18111ECB5BF500951ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220401010114 008 220314s2022 xxu 000 0 eng 020 $a 198930513X 020 $a 9781989305133 (softcover) 040 $d SILO 100 1 $a Getz, Brandon, $e author. 245 10 $a Stop me if you've heard this one before / $c stories by Brandon Getz. 260 $a United States : $b Six Gallery Press , $c 2022. 300 $a 242 pages ; $c 17 cm. 505 00 $t Ghosts of Buenos Aires. $t Stop me if you've heard this one before -- $t White people -- $t The original buffalo man -- $t Our hero -- $t The collector -- $t The number 9 train -- $t Robont on a park bench -- $t Stan's taxidermy express -- $t The lone hero and the self-made man -- $t Lesser demons -- $t Ghosts of Buenos Aires. 520 $a A man's midlife crisis unfolding in a taxidermy factory. A widower and his baby daughter visited by demons. A homunculus climbing out of the skull of a woman's sick father. These stories exist in the borderlands between literary and genre, injecting strange and speculative elements into the mundane. Creatures, spirits, ghosts, robots, superheroes, and the Devil himself populate the pages, as elements of satire, horror, and science fiction enter the everyday tragedies of love, death, and loss. With odes to jazz and cyberpunk, spanning Pittsburgh to Argentina, Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before is twelve tales of the weird, including a previously unpublished story and novelette. 650 00 $a Short stories, American. 651 0 $a United States $x Fiction. $x Fiction. 941 $a 1 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20220401030439.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F9188CC2B18111ECB5BF500951ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search