And Yet It Moves [Paperback]

In this exquisite debut short story collection, people with unusual jobs and lives embark on extraordinary journeys. A taboo romance breaks the laws of gravity. Albert Einstein writes letters to the daughter he abandoned. A female physicist meets Stephen Hawking in a bar.... In the closing novella, All Those Stairs, an elevator operator with a genius IQ rides up and down all day enclosed in a metal box. Author Erin Stalcup explores these lives with remarkable compassion, depth, and insight examining loss and longing, and how our bodies and minds can be both weighted and freed. And Yet It Moves is a powerful combination of both absurdist and realiststories that literally defy gravity.

Erin Stalcups fiction has appeared in The Kenyon Review, Kenyon Review Online, The Sun, H_NGM_N, Hobart, [PANK], and elsewhere.

The ever-present, everyday magic in Stalcups debut collection overlays the mundane world like mist and blurs the lines between the prosaic and the fantastic, in stories that examine life and loss. . . Stalcups fabulist prose-poetry takes readers on tours of todays dreams and Nikola Teslas memories, her writing surreal but solid enough for the reader to lean against.

Acknowledgements
Gravity
In the Heart of the Heart of the Empire
Keen
With Strangers
Ghost Writer
Not Long for this World
Ochre Is the Color of Deserts and Dried Blood
Brightest Corners
Why Things Fall
I. Newton
II. Einstein
III. Tesla
IV. Galileo, Hawking, Rabinowitz

All Those Stairs

Credits

Erin Stalcup's intelligent, provocative stories grow inside your mind and body long after you have absorbed their marvelous inward and outward views of the individual heart and the human community. These stories cast you into the darkest dreams, and they startle you awake. Like all mystical experiences, And Yet It Moves opens your heart by breaking it.Simply put: these stories defy gravity. Step aside Newton, And Yet it Moves?assigns l“.