In this collection of curious and delightful short stories, you never know who you’re going to meet or where you’re going to end up. You can be certain, however, that whether you follow Schroedinger’s cat into the zeroth dimension or have drinks with a woman who’s seen Gertrude Stein in the condensation on her window, you’ll find yourself smack dab in the middle of some befuddling predicament of existence. Using humor and horror, satire and allegory, fabulism and realism, Tales from the Liminal takes you for an extraordinary ride, submerging you in spaces where anything is possible, especially transformation.
The diversity and power of these creations results in a collection that will delight literature readers who want consistently powerful examples of the short story form used to its greatest effectiveness. It delights with hard-hitting messages that linger in the mind long after their reading. - D. Donovan, Senior Reviewer, Midwest Book Review … a breed of storytelling that encases an entire cosmos within a compact form, with prose that pulses with life, with tableaus that transfix the imagination with glimmers of divine order in an emotionally turbulent landscape … - Timothy Cech, fiction editor, Reed Magazine
The world in Kruse’s new book is bizarre … and beautiful … a vast catalogue of philosophical ideas sprung from their hypothetical cages, brought to life as the author gives them form and makes her way, in a series of short stories, from one odd place to another. - Matt Geiger, Mount Horeb Mail
Fifteen Stories:
Bigfoot’s Got a Lover The Birthday Party The Stretch Motel Mistakes May Have Been Made All He Could Do Is Sing When They Come for Me The Ferryman and His Brother She Saw Gertrude Stein in the Condensation on Her Window Goodbye, Bonavento Man Posts Picture of Unusual Rock and Gets Call from Concerned Parties The Carousel My Streak of Nobody I Followed Schroedinger’s Cat and Here’s What I Found The Unexpected Consequence of an Unintended Revolution Summoned by a Star
