Where the survivors are buried. Five miles from home -- Your nearest exit may be behind you -- The salt life -- The immortal jellyfish -- Every heavy thing -- Y'idiot -- Mrs. Hutchinson's bones -- Erase the days -- Where the survivors are buried.
Summary:
"Speculative and darkly surreal, the stories in Shadowselves examine characters who have stepped dangerously close to an edge they cannot see. A snow plow driver stranded on the roadside during a blizzard finds himself trapped in a riddled memory. A middle-aged man wakes up one morning to find he's gained four hundred pounds overnight, along with the unbearable regrets of countless strangers. A lonely child sets off to prove the existence of a mythic bird, but uncovers an ugly secret on the other side of town. A comatose teenage outcast traverses the liminal space between life and death. With a sometimes-tenuous grip on reality, and often haunted by mistakes, repressions, and alternate versions of who they might have been, the characters in Shadowselves struggle to find meaningful human connections in a world where the most important things always seem just out of their reach."--from Amazon.com.
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