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Destroy All Monsters, and Other Stories (Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction)
Destroy All Monsters and Other Stories - Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction Author:Greg Hrbek Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, Greg Hrbek?s Destroy All Monsters, and Other Stories is a collection that explores what it means to be human?and inhuman. These ten stories have won an array of honors?and whether set in the historical past or in a speculative future, each is wildly imaginative and shockingly real. — In ?Sagit... more »tarius,? selected for The Best American Short Stories, a mother and father search a dark forest for their missing newborn, who is either a child with profound birth defects or a miraculous creature. In ?False Positive,? a ghostly girl visits her biological father ten years after being aborted in utero. In ?Bereavement,? a marriage is falling apart following a child?s accidental death, but a combination of myth and technology provides hope for a second life. Fantastic, horrific, painfully familiar, these stories are the work of a consummate storyteller. (20110901)« less