Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Short and Surreal: Eleven Works of Wonder

Short and Surreal: Eleven Works of Wonder

Pike, Tall

Hardcover

Fantasy

Currently unavailable to order

ISBN10: 1999398025
ISBN13: 9781999398026
Publisher: Tall Pike
Pages: 636
Weight: 2.24
Height: 1.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Sometimes, dreams can come true... whether you like it or not. Here, at last... Eleven of Tall Pike's previously unpublished, unexpected-yet long overdue-works of offbeat fiction have been bundled together in this collection. Often speculative, surreal, and philosophically oriented, this eclectic mix of stories could be said to resonate shades of fantasy, science fiction, and horror... Maybe. The Promotion presents the near future of an alternate reality in which an already depressed company employee's inexplicably strange day makes him question things: His advancement in a career he hates, his faltering perception, his health, and, eventually, why he bothered to get out of bed that morning. Things Could Always Be Worse begins with a typical day in the life of a bohemian urban princess, whose narrow world is about to collapse into a state that anyone would find disconcerting. Peregrine concerns a wanderer, who travels to escape a curse that inevitably draws hostility towards him from every surrounding community he visits. Through unfortunate happenstance, he is eventually forced to journey to a foreboding place, lest he endure yet another possible curse. Of course, there's more...

Also from

Pike, Tall

View All

Also in

Fantasy

View All