Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century

Stories

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Featured on CBC’s The Next Chapter with Shelagh Rogers

The debut collection from PEN/Hemingway Award finalist and ‘propulsive storyteller’ (NYT Book Review), with stories that are by turns poignant and pulpy

In the twelve unforgettable tales of Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, the strange is made familiar and the familiar strange, such that a girl growing wings on her legs feels like an ordinary rite of passage, while a bug-infested house becomes an impossible, Kafkaesque nightmare. Each story builds a new world all its own: a group of children steal a haunted doll; a runaway bride encounters a sea monster; a vendor sells toy boxes that seemingly control the passage of time; an insomniac is seduced by the Sandman. These visions of modern life wrestle with themes of death and technological consequence, guilt and sexuality, as they unmask the contradictions that exist within all of us.

Contributors

Kim Fu

Kim Fu is the author of The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore, a finalist for the Washington State Book Award and the Ontario Library Association Evergreen Award. Her first novel, For Today I Am a Boy, won the Edmund White Award Award for Debut Fiction and the Canadian Authors Emerging Writer Award, and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize, and a Lambda Literary Award. It was also a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and was longlisted for CBC’s Canada Reads. Fu’s writing has appeared in Room, Hazlitt, Maisonneuve, Granta, the Atlantic, and the New York Times. She lives in Seattle.
Chapter Contributors Pages Year Price
The short story "Pre-Simulation Consultation XF007867."
10 $1.00
A short story "Liddy, First to Fly."
14 $1.40
The short story "Time Cubes."
10 $1.00
The short story "#ClimbingNation."
13 $1.30
The short story "Sandman."
15 $1.50
The short story "Twenty Hours."
12 $1.20
The short story "The Doll."
16 $1.60
The short story "In This Fantasy."
7 $0.70
The short story "Scissors."
9 $0.90
The short story "June Bugs."
32 $3.20
The short story "Bridezilla."
11 $1.10
The short story "Do You Remember Candy."
14 $1.40