Tell Me Yours I'll Tell You Mine

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>A strange and sinister debut from Stephen Dixon Award winner Kristina Ten </em></strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The new kid in school discovers a diabolical presence in the depths of an English-language-learning CD-ROM. A desperate and declining empire designs an elaborate matchmaking system around cootie catchers and soda-can tabs. A former varsity volleyball player reopens the grisly wounds of her youth haunted by a lost friend. In each story the game has been twisted. In each game players must make their own rules. Through a bloody shattered lens the artifacts of growing up take on a new and disquieting power-riddles remain unsolved pranks have perilous stakes and superstitions won't save you.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Populated by living paper dolls summer camp legends and trivia nights gone terribly wrong the twelve genre-crossing tales in </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Tell Me Yours I'll Tell You Mine </em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>wrestle with themes of memory disobedience alienation belonging and the horrors of inhabiting a body others seek to control. </span></p>