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A ghost haunts King David's family. Brothers devour their enemies
and each other. A rabbi opens a Chabad House in a sinister New
England town. In this book, you will find seven stories as demented
and horrifying as the Bible that inspired them.
--------------------------- Dark and enticing, the stories in King
David & the Spiders from Mars explore Biblical themes with a
paradoxical combination of religious irreverence and respect for
the literary richness of the texts. Marked by lush prose, often
disturbing at a gut level, these are stories that stay with you. -
Ilana Teitelbaum ============================ It is often said that
the Bible is the most violent book ever written. This rich tapestry
of tales draws on Biblical slaughter, cruelty, and mayhem from
ancient times to the modern day. It is a theme anthology that not
only keeps you interested in the theme, but makes you look at the
source material with new eyes. - Poppy Z. Brite.
Postcards from the Province of Hyphens marks the debut of Sonya
Taaffe's first full-length collection, with nearly fifty poems and
prose pieces, including the Rhysling award-winning and -nominated
poems, "Matlacihuatl's Gift," "Storm Gods of the Connecticut River
Valley," "Green Fuses," "Harlequin, Lonely," and more.
The Devil's School lies down this way. Lot's wife knows your name.
Hearts hang in the scales, flesh and clay are one and the same, and
the severed head of Orpheus sings in winter waves. In award-winning
poet Sonya Taaffe's first collection of short fiction, the
boundaries between worlds dissolve to reveal unmasked harlequins
and women made of stars, serpentine plagues and New England storm
gods, and many other denizens of the spaces between. These songs of
innocence and experience, Blake never knew.
The Devil's School lies down this way. Lot's wife knows your name.
Hearts hang in the scales, flesh and clay are one and the same, and
the severed head of Orpheus sings in winter waves. In award-winning
poet Sonya Taaffe's first collection of short fiction, the
boundaries between worlds dissolve to reveal unmasked harlequins
and women made of stars, serpentine plagues and New England storm
gods, and many other denizens of the spaces between. These songs of
innocence and experience, Blake never knew.
Postcards from the Province of Hyphens marks the debut of Sonya
Taaffe's first full-length collection, with nearly fifty poems and
prose pieces, including the Rhysling award-winning and -nominated
poems, "Matlacihuatl's Gift," "Storm Gods of the Connecticut River
Valley," "Green Fuses," "Harlequin, Lonely," and more.
The color of his eyes had not changed, neither their depth nor
their focus; his voice was as relaxed and nasal as the first time
he spoke to her in the library. But he was looking through his eyes
now, not with them: panes of stonewashed stained glass, and she
said, dead-end recognition, Menachem. Something like ice and brandy
sunfished up into her throat, sluice and burn past her heart; she
put it from her, as she had weeks ago put away her surprise.
Wondering for how long this time, she gave her greeting to this new
face. I was wondering when youd turn up. Dybbuk: plural, dybbuks or
dybbukim; from the Hebrew levadek, to cling or cleave. In Eastern
Europe, at the end of the nineteenth century, a restless spirit
that possesses a living person until exorcised. On the East Coast,
at the beginning of the twenty-first, a dead man with a thousand
faces and a single desire . . .
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