Awry

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>From one of the best-kept secrets in American indie literature (</span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Vol. 1 Brooklyn)</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> comes a collection of stories exploring the limits of love compassion obsession and duty. With stories of lonely accountants cloning themselves to disastrous results lovers consuming their partners children hearing voices telling them killing is compassionate and women haunted by their deceased fetuses </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Awry </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>contains a strange and haunting world filled with painful decisions and human uncertainty.</span></p><p></p><p>Whether the stories fun with a pack of coyotes on the plains or along the cobblestone streets of Prague in a father's nightmare or in the lyrics of a mother's song to her unborn child duncan b. barlow shows his master of the short story in the eleven tender and captivating stories collected here.</p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The remarkable tales collected in duncan b. barlow's </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Awry</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> are the kinds of confidently written powerfully distressing works of dark fiction that I ache to consume as an admirer of the eerie and the macabre. These stories about the misplaced and the lost are provoking strange and fiercely potent. It's inevitable that readers will finish this collection and find themselves bewildered and deeply affected.</span></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Eric LaRocca author of <em>Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke</em></strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>What makes these stories so strong is their sly combination of compassion and ruthlessness: you care about the well-drawn characters even as you know that very bad things are going to happen to them. Meticulous and precise painful and surprising </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Awry</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is a unique-and uniquely powerful-collection.</span></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Brian Evenson author of <em>Good Night Sleep Tight</em> and <em>The Glass Burning Floor of Hell</em></strong></p><p></p>