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Stories – Darkly Inventive Speculative Fiction of Ghosts, Mortality, and the Strangeness of Being Human
by Chris Vanjonack
A wildly inventive collection of interconnected speculative stories—spanning the multiverse, demonic attachment, and life after death—from an electrifying new voice in fiction.
An aimless ghost haunts his ex-girlfriend for evidence that she's actually upset about his death.
A group of teens discovers a machine that purports to predict the best day of its users' lives.
A young woman is horrified to discover that an aggressive stranger she met on a night of bar-hopping now manifests in every photo that is taken of her.
A drunken posse descends into the woods in search of clowns that have been terrorizing their small town.
Chris Vanjonack's fiction is haunted not only by specters of death, but by the elusive questions of life, and above all, the wonder and horror of the infinite. Uncanny, surreal, and infectiously clever, the stories in this linked collection contain horrors great and small, fueled as much by the fantastic as by longing, dread, and all-too-human frailties.
Morbidly funny and brilliantly observed, Out of Body is an atmospheric, dead original feast for the senses.
"Eerie, unhinged, and hilarious, these stories are the work of a true original. Chris Vanjonack is the best new writer I've encountered in a long while!" ―Dan Chaon, author of One of Us
"Steeped in wondrous weirdness and heart, Chris Vanjonack's stories take you into the most vulnerable nooks of his characters' humanity. These stories deliver wildly entertaining premises that unfold tenderly, poignantly and hilariously. A sparkling delight to read!" ―Gerardo Sámano Córdova, author of Monstrilio
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Chris Vanjonack is a writer and educator from Denver, Colorado. A recipient of an AWP Intro Journals Award, his fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in One Story, The Book of the Month Club's Volume 0, Barrelhouse, Electric Literature, Ninth Letter, DIAGRAM, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and he teaches creative writing at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop. He can be found online at chrisvanjonack.com.
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