Death and Other Survival Strategies

<p><strong>You will emerge on the other side of this book laughing crying and braver. Lorette C. Luzajic founder and editor of <em>The Ekphrastic Review</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p>A young boy confronts a terrifying family secret. A recent college graduate is surprised by her fairy godmother in the powder room of a fancy nightclub in Manhattan. An exhausted midwife and her talking horse stumble into the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. A crack real estate agent confronts monstrously annoying thrill seekers at her open house. Two scheming ex-lovers meet at a diner; only one will leave. A small child gleefully bends reality to her will.</p><p><br></p><p>This cross-genre collection of flash explores the far realms of our most basic instinct. Russell's stories astonish delight and repulse unleashing a multiverse of possibility as her unforgettable characters respond to uncertainty in bedeviling ways.</p>