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Stepdad on the Dance Floor
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $19.95
ISBN13: 9781963115741
Publisher: Unsolicited Press
Published: Aug 25 2026
Pages: 178
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.41 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The stories in Stepdad on the Dance Floor capture lives on the verge of change, characters suspended at moments of realization that arrive unexpectedly and often quietly. A young boy discovers his gift for escaping calamity. An alcoholic commercial lender confronts the end of his working life on his final day at the office. A New Hampshire trailer park is unsettled by the arrival of a former sitcom star, while a widower learns that a Magnus Chord Organ may possess otherworldly summoning powers.
Across the collection, Timothy Boudreau grounds his stories in recognizable American settings and working-class realities, allowing the strange to emerge not as spectacle but as intrusion. The uncanny slips into these lives through chance meetings, forgotten instruments, fading celebrity, and private grief, bending reality just enough to expose what his characters have been avoiding or cannot yet name.
These stories are less interested in answers than in moments of reckoning. What happens when a life pauses, cracks open, and briefly reveals another possibility? Sometimes the result is transformation, sometimes acceptance, sometimes a quiet blessing. Together, the collection forms a portrait of people learning, often too late or too suddenly, that the smallest moments can carry the greatest weight.
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