Congratulations to former runner-up in the 2007 short story category (and a finalist in the poetry category many times)! Maureen’s first short story collection, THE SLOW VANISHING, will be published by Main Street Rag Publishing Company in the fall.
THE SLOW VANISHING (ISBN 13: 978-1-59948-186-9) contains both flash fiction and longer stories. Some of the stories first appeared in literary journals, such as Stone Canoe, the North Carolina Literary Review, the Knoxville Writers’ Guild Anthology, Low Explosions: Writings on the Body, and the Sierra Nevada College Review.
To receive an advance order discount ($9.00), please order the book now online at the publisher’s website: http://www.mainstreetrag.com/store/ComingSoon.php
Advance order discounts only apply to online orders. The cover price will be $13.95 – so take advantage of the discount by ordering today.
Off-beat stories with unexpected endings. Life’s ordinary problems intruded on by the bizarre. The Slow Vanishing has a mesmerizing, magical effect.
— Joanna Catherine Scott, author of The Road From Chapel Hill
What a wonderful collection this is. Maureen Sherbondy’s The Slow Vanishing is remarkable for its abundance, its variety, its range, and its sheer imagination. There are long, serious stories… There are comic stories, very short stories (flash fictions), and in all of them Sherbondy’s gift for vivid, sharp imagery and telling detail shines forth. Everything seems to vanish–children, mothers, houses, comedians, body parts, husbands, even punctuation–and all this vanishing asks us to think about life without that which has vanished. And we do think. We laugh, we worry, we think, and we read on, because we want more.”
–– Anthony S. Abbott, author of The Three Great Secret Things
For more info, visit www.maureensherbondy.com
