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Eight surreal stories about women in flight from the past: one lives in a house with her husband and all of her ex-boyfriends, another takes a drug that makes her disappear.
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The Girl in the Flammable Skirt
Bender's first collection of short, strange fables, among them a man whose lover is going through reverse evolution and a girl with a hand made of fire.
Get in Trouble
Nine stories in which ordinary people meet the uncanny, from a girl who keeps house for the uncanny summer people up the hill to a fading star of vampire movies filming a ghost-hunting show.
Orange World
Stories about a new mother nursing a demon, climate-changed worlds, and the strange arrangements people make with dread.
Vampires in the Lemon Grove
Stories featuring old vampires who quench their thirst with lemons in an Italian grove, seagulls that steal things from a boy's future, American presidents reincarnated as horses and girls in a Japanese silk mill turning into silkworms.
Magic for Beginners
Stories set in a world one step to the side of this one: a convenience store that zombies visit at night, a handbag with a whole village inside it, and a group of friends obsessed with a pirate TV show that may be watching them back.
Severance
As Shen Fever spreads, trapping its victims in endless repetitions of their old routines, Candace Chen keeps going to her job at a New York publisher, until she joins a band of survivors heading for a mysterious facility.
Earth Angel
Cash's first book, interlinked stories in which rebellious schoolgirls, internet strangers and a biblical plague of talking frogs turn up in a world that is absurd and knows it.
Parakeet
The week before her wedding, a woman known as the Bride is visited by her dead grandmother in the form of a parakeet, who tells her to find the estranged brother she has not seen in years.
The Elephant Vanishes
Seventeen early stories, from newlyweds who hold up a McDonald's in the middle of the night to a housewife who has stopped sleeping altogether.
Death Valley
With her father in intensive care after an accident, a novelist from Los Angeles checks into a Best Western in Death Valley to hike alone, and the desert begins to open up in ways she cannot explain.
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Twenty-four stories from across his career, among them a waitress granted one wish on her twentieth birthday and a monkey in Shinagawa that steals people's names.
Salt Slow
Nine stories of bodies changing in strange ways, from a girl whose skin begins to peel away to a city where people's sleep wanders off without them.