About the Author

RIKKI DUCORNET Introduction IRA SHER Lionflower Hedge LEENA KROHN The Son of Chimera ANGELA CARTER The Cabinet of Edgar Allan Poe KATE KASTEN Ever and Anon WILLIAM LUVAAS Lithia Park MICHAEL MOORCOCK The Third Jungle Book: A Mowgli Story MAUREEN N. MCLANE White Girl KIM STANLEY ROBINSON The Lucky Strike MARY MACKEY Third Initiation: A Gift from the Land of Dreams JANICE LAW Side Effects CAROLE ROSENTHAL The Concert Pianist's Flight STEPHEN SHUGART Making Faces JUSTIN COURTER The Town News CAROL SCHWALBERG The Midnight Lover TOM LA FARGE Night Reconnaissance SHELLEY JACKSON Short-Term Memorial Park PAUL PEKIN The Magnificent Carp of Hichi Street L. TIMMEL DUCHAMP The Tears of Niobe RIKKI DUCORNET Lettuce RANDALL SILVIS The Night of Love's Last Dance ALASDAIR GRAY Five Letters From an Eastern Empire ANNA TAMBOUR The Beginnings, Endings, and Middles Ball RUDY RUCKER The Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics IRA SHER Nobody's Home LEENA KROHN The Ice Cream Vendor KAREN HEULER Jubilee Dreams BRIAN EVENSON An Accounting K. BANNERMAN Armegedn, or The End of the Word BRADFORD MORROW Gardener of Heart LAURA MORIARTY Maryolatry KEVIN W. REARDON The Cloud Room NOELLE SICKELS The Tree TERRY GATES-GRIMWOOD Nobody Walks in London GLADYS SWAN The Tiger's Eye JUSTIN COURTER Skunk MICHAEL ANDRE-DRIUSSI Old Flames in New Bottles CHARLIE ANDERS Power Couple, or Love Never Sleeps RIKKI DUCORNET Who's There? JEFF VANDERMEER The Secret Paths of Rajan Khanna MERCEDES SANCHEZ Dream Catcher ROBIN CATON B, Longing LAIRD HUNT Three Tales LEENA KROHN About the Henbane City STEPAN CHAPMAN Losing the War MARK WALLACE The Flowers JEFFREY FORD The White Man MICHAEL CONSTANCE Finding the Words LAURA MULLEN English / History URSULA K. LE GUIN The Birthday of the World MICHAEL MOORCOCK Cake

Reviews

"The editors have cast an impressively wide net. . . . As a collection of stories, andan introduction to a number of new writers, "ParaSpheres" is fine, and well worth your attention." --Stephen Jeffery, "Interzone"

""ParaSpheres" has succeeded in . . . presenting an excellent selection of unique writing and providing an alternative framework through which it may be understood." --Miranda Siemienowicz, "HorrorScope"

"A feast of fine writing and striking applications of the fantastic to the everyday . . . "ParaSpheres" performs an inestimable service." --Nick Gevers, "Locus" magazine

"Full of superb stories . . . often breathtaking . . . "ParaSpheres" doesn't point toward other worlds as much as point toward ours, and how we have let our public and private spheres become, alternately, reverie and nightmare." --Alan DeNiro, Rain Taxi Online

"[A] marvelously generous collection of stories that dart back and forth over the boundary supposedly separating the genre of the fantastic from mainstream literature." --Peter Straub, bestselling author

"A marvelous anthology full of marvelous tales. The sum of an anthology can sometimes be greater than its parts, and these parts--these stories--are bold, haunting, and remarkable." --Kelly Link, author, "Stranger Things Happen"

"This anthology begins with a fascinating discussion of fiction and its subdivisions. . . . They are tales of weirdness and wonder, largely set in odd analogues of our own world. Not quite like ordinary literature, nor yet like typical fantasy, they hold a unique and intriguing flavor." --S. Ardrian, "Fearless Reviews"

"ÝA¨ marvelously generous collection of stories that dart back and forth over the boundary supposedly separating the genre of the fantastic from mainstream literature." --Peter Straub, bestselling author