Fluid: Stories

by Lisa Teasley

Overview

The short stories in FLUID are set in California, New York, Nevada, North Carolina, Northern England, and Namibia, taking a deep dive into the vastly differing perspectives of an intriguingly diverse collage of characters, who are navigating lives within society’s most challenging contemporary issues.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781951082826
Publisher:	Cune Press
Publication date:	09/26/2023
Pages:	132
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.28(d)

About the Author

Lisa Teasley is the author of the award-winning story collection Glow in the Dark (Cune Press), and the critically acclaimed novels, Dive and Heat Signature (Bloomsbury). Her writings have been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, and Arabic. Lisa Teasley’s stories and essays have been much anthologized including in the W.W. Norton anthology Flash Fiction America, 2023 and Europa Editions The Passenger: California, 2022. She is the writer and presenter of the BBC television documentary “High School Prom” 2006 and is currently writing a commissioned opera libretto. Lisa currently resides in Los Angeles, California.

Table of Contents

1. Death is Beautiful
2. Full Circle
3. Chimera
4. The Hour of the Star
5. Glossolalia
6. Joie de Vivre
7. Random Kid in a Black Hole
8. The Girl in the Case
9. Gigi and Lalo
10. Late Blooming
11. Modus Operandi
12. I Met Someone
13. The Numerologist
14. Course in Miracles
15. The Elephant Talker
16. Three Loves of Ebba Jones

Editorial Reviews

Teasley writes in a daring original voice. Glow in the Dark is an unusually assured first short story collection and Lisa Teasley deserves high praise for giving the American short story an honest and original shot in the arm.”  —Jeff Galipeaux, San Francisco Chronicle

“This ambitious, richly imagined novel tackles loss, recovery, and friendship…[Teasley] convincingly depicts [Sam’s] agonizing emotional struggles and dramatically shifting moods. As she did in her first novel Dive, Teasley also skillfully intertwines both romantic and violent plot elements…an affecting novel. Recommended for most libraries.” —Patrick Sullivan, Library Journal

“With its keen ability to convey the way geography and interior life meld together in memory, Teasley’s writing easily transcends genre.” —Sara Cardace, Washington Post

“Without embracing cynicism or denying the risks, Teasley lights up the plunge into the abyss that can result from knowing people far too well.” —Greg Tate, Village Voice

“Poignant, affecting and true.” —Carmela Ciuraru, Los Angeles Times

"Every one of the stories in this knock-out collection by Lisa Teasley hides within it a hundred other stories of lives lived in the loop of our ever mindboggling new century. Beautiful, ominous, erotic, full of a hushed surreal poetry that rolls in like waves of the sea, one after another.” —Steve Erickson, author of Shadowbahn and Zeroville

“Lisa Teasley has an uncanny knack for writing about human beings in all our weirdly diverse glory. Strange, sensual, and smart, the stories in this collection honor the unpredictability of love, life, and death.” —Myriam Gurba, author of Mean

“Written in prose both blunt and elliptical, the dozen tales form a gritty yet empathetic collage of lives on the precipice of contemporary America.” —Reed Johnson, Los Angeles Times

“Sexy…fiercely intelligent.” —Elle Magazine

"...the richness of the book’s content glimmers with unique and fascinating stories that explore the fabric of life in a way that can only be done by such an extolled writer as Lisa Teasley." —Amsterdam News

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