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The Masters Review Volume IV - Finalist! INDIEFAB AwardThe best short stories by emerging writers. This year's volume showcases fiction selected by bestselling author, Kevin Brockmeier. A man is hired to snuggle, teenagers grow wings, young boys embark on a road trip to steal from their mother. As Kevin Brockmeier puts it: "They all made me feel, as I sat quietly before them, that I was participating more fully in my own experience..."The Mast...

The author of the acclaimed novel The Brief History of the Dead now gives us one hundred funny, poignant, scary, and thought-provoking ghost stories that explore all aspects of the afterlife.A spirit who appears in a law firm reliving the exact moment she lost her chance at love, a man haunted by the trees cut down to build his house, nefarious specters that snatch anyone who steps into the shadows in which they live, and parakeets that serve ...

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Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, The Seattle Times, The Kansas City Star, and Philadelphia City Paper What if our pain was the most beautiful thing about us? At 8:17 on a Friday night, the Illumination begins. Every wound begins to shine, every bruise to glow and shimmer. And in the aftermath of a fatal car accident, a journal of love notes, written by a husband to his wife, passes into the keeping of Carol Ann Page, and from there throug...

This richly imaginative novel is set on Earth and in the City, an Earth-like place where the recent dead live as long as they are remembered by those still alive. Among the residents of the City are Marion and Phillip Byrd, who are falling in love with each other again even as their daughter's memories of them are fading. Unabridged. 8 CDs.

At age twelve, Kevin Brockmeier is ready to become a different person: not the boy he has always been-the one who cries too easily and laughs too easily, who lives in an otherland of sparkling daydreams and imaginary catastrophes-but someone else altogether. Over the course of one school year-seventh grade-he sets out in search of himself. Along the way, he happens into his first kiss at a church party, struggles to understand why his old fr...

Novelist Kevin Brockmeier recalls the most difficult year of his life.

Novelist Kevin Brockmeier recalls the most difficult year of his life.

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The critically acclaimed, spellbinding novel about life, death and everything that follows.

From Kevin Brockmeier, one of this generation's most inventive young writers, comes a striking new novel about death, life, and the mysterious place in between. The City is inhabited by those who have departed Earth but are still remembered by the living. They will reside in this afterlife until they are completely forgotten. But the City is shrinking, and the residents clearing out. Some of the holdouts, like Luka Sims, who produces the City'...

Peering into the often unnoticed corners of life, Kevin Brockmeier has been consistently praised for the originality of his vision, the boundlessness of his imagination and the command of his craft. Once again, in this new collection of fiction, Brockmeier shows us a fantastical world that is intimately familiar but somehow distant and beautiful. From the touching title story, where a young, antisocial woman imagines her escape into the sky wi...

What if our pain was the most beautiful thing about us? From a bestselling and award-winning author comes a new novel of stunning artistry and imagination about the wounds we all bear and the light that radiates from us all.

Weaving together loss and anxiety with fantastic elements and literary sleight-of-hand, Kevin Brockmeier's richly imagined Things That Fall from the Sky views the nagging realities of the world through a hopeful lens.In "These Hands, " a man named Lewis recounts his time babysitting a young girl and his inconsolable sense of loss after she is wrenched away. In "Apples, " a boy comes to terms with the complex world of adults, his first pangs of...

While playing alone in her backyard one afternoon, seven-year-old Celia suddenly disappears while her father Christopher is inside giving a tour of their historic house and her mother Janet is at an orchestra rehearsal.Utterly shattered, Christopher, a writer of fantasy and science fiction, withdraws from everyone around him, especially his wife, losing himself in his writing by conjuring up worlds where Celia still exists—as a child, as a tee...