Dark Matter: Stories

Inventive and unsettling, the stories of Stephen Shugart exist in their own hybrid dimension of the familiar and fabulous. Their reach in subject matter is matched by the range of the book's compelling characters: a man who claims he's so in love that he can endure putting his face in a table saw; a woman married nine times who can make love happen at will. Time and space here become touchstones of articulated and resonant longings for connection and wholeness. Dark Matter is an exciting an...