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Describe your latest book. My new novel is called Station Eleven. It's about a traveling Shakespearean theatre company in a post-apocalyptic North America. The book moves back and forth in time between the years just before a devastating flu pandemic brings about the collapse of civilization as we know it, and a time 20 years [...]
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This week for your listening pleasure, "The House Eaters" from my short story collection, The Saints are Dead. Now available in dead tree format (paperback) or e-book (Kindle) from Aqueous Press. This story has absolutely nothing to do with my YA novel of the same name. Lousy marketing on my part? I don't know.
But it is one of my favorite shorts and an homage to both Julio Cortazar and Shirley Jackson.
2 Comments on Saturday Podcast: "The House Eaters" (short story), last added: 5/29/2011
Wow, brilliant! I guess if they had taken anything from the home the nothingness might have come with them... or is it themselves that carry the House Eaters with them?
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Excellent piece. The acceptance of their loss is oddly disturbing.
Wow, brilliant! I guess if they had taken anything from the home the nothingness might have come with them... or is it themselves that carry the House Eaters with them?