Fluid: Stories [Paperback]

The short stories inFLUIDare set in California, New York, Nevada, North Carolina, Northern England, and Namibia, taking a deep dive into the vastly differing perspectives of an intriguingly diverse collage of characters, who are navigating lives within society’s most challenging contemporary issues.US“Teasley writes in a daring original voice.Glow in the Darkis an unusually assured first short story collection and Lisa Teasley deserves high praise for giving the American short story an honest and original shot in the arm.”  —Jeff Galipeaux, San Francisco Chronicle“This ambitious, richly imagined novel tackles loss, recovery, and friendship…[Teasley] convincingly depicts [Sam’s] agonizing emotional struggles and dramatically shifting moods. As she did in her first novelDive, Teasley also skillfully intertwines both romantic and violent plot elements…an affecting novel. Recommended for most libraries.” —Patrick Sullivan, Library Journal“With its keen ability to convey the way geography and interior life meld together in memory, Teasley’s writing easily transcends genre.” —Sara Cardace, Washington Post“Without embracing cynicism or denying the risks, Teasley lights up the plunge into the abyss that can result from knowing people far too well.” —Greg Tate, Village Voice“Poignant, affecting and true.” —Carmela Ciuraru, Los Angeles Times

"Every one of the stories in this knock-out collection by Lisa Teasley hides within it a hundred other stories of lives lived in the loop of our ever mindboggling new century. Beautiful, ominous, erotic, full of a hushed surreal poetry that rolls in like waves of the sea, one after another.” —Steve Erickson, author of Shadowbahn and Zeroville

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