Periphylla and Other Deep Ocean Attractions

<p>Garrett Ashley's debut short story collection <em>Periphylla and Other Deep Ocean Attractions </em>introduces a cast of characters both strange and strangely familiar: a father struggling to reconcile modern co-parenting with his past life as a yak a brother and sister fighting to survive in an alligator-infested swamp residents of a seaside town where the cadence of life and loss follows the heartbeat of the mythical Leviathan. Readers will find stories of reincarnation zombification and genetic modification-but most of all a piercing self-awareness that invites us to laugh at the absurd while also reminding us in all seriousness that what some may call fantasy often tells the truest story.</p>