Down the Road to Eternity

Down the Road to Eternity: New Selected Fiction is a Collection of M.A.C. Farrant's work dating from 1985 to the present. Compiled of selected fiction from Sick Pigeon (1991), Raw Material (1993), Altered Statements (1995), Word of Mouth (1996), What's True, Darling (1997), Darwin Alone in the Universe (2003), and The Breakdown So Far (2007), it includes her complete new suite of eighteen stories, The North Pole, where our individual existence is bludgeoned by the threat of "end times"-climate change, species extinction, pandemics, and really bad politics. Each of these stories is an ongoing instance of the author's attempt at understanding language ironically, a search for the strikingly sublime in the awesomely absurd.

Foreword	p. 13
Sick Pigeon
Sick Pigeon	p. 17
Rob's Guns & Ammo	p. 25
The Loneliest Sound You'll Ever Hear	p. 33
All the Good and Beautiful Forces	p. 37
Macaroni and Cheese (From: The-We-Used-To-Be-the-Middle-Class Cookbook)	p. 48
Raw Material
Raw Material	p. 55
The Bright Gymnasium of fun	p. 60
Fish	p. 63
Studies Show / Experts Say	p. 68
The Comma Threat	p. 77
The Local Women are Performing a Traditional Dance	p. 81
Score	p. 84
The Children Do Not Yet Know	p. 88
Altered Statements
Thunder Showers in Bangkok	p. 93
Alice & Stein	p. 96
Kristmas Kraft	p. 104
On Holiday with Giants	p. 105
Green Plastic Buddha	p. 107
Vacation Time	p. 109
There is a Competition for the Hearts and Minds of the People	p. 110
Word of Mouth
Refusal	p. 125
What's True, Darling
Dorothy Parker's Dog	p. 141
Closing Time at Barbie's Boutique	p. 146
Jigsaw	p. 151
Hallowe'en So Far Away	p. 154
Blague Mountain	p. 156
The Party	p. 157
All Chickens are Sucks	p. 161
Darwin Alone in the Universe
Gifts	p. 167
Down the Road to Eternity	p. 170
Point Ten	p. 178
The Heartspeak Wellness Retreat	p. 187
Brave New Desires	p. 194
Darwin Alone in the Universe	p. 195
White Satire	p. 207
Cheerleading	p. 208
The Air is Thick with Metaphors	p. 211
The Breakdown So Far
Now is the Time	p. 215
The Breakdown So Far	p. 219
The Compassionate Side of Nature	p. 226
Budgie Suicide	p. 228
Funeral	p. 229
Membership Drive	p. 230
Jesus Loves Me But He Can't Stand You	p. 233
Because of Russell Edson	p. 234
Sixty Degrees	p. 236
Poof	p. 240
A Little Something	p. 241
Spring in North America	p. 242
Fridge Magnet People	p. 244
Perpetual Coda	p. 246
Breakdown of the Month Calendar	p. 249
Bad Boy	p. 251
The North Pole
The North Pole	p. 257
Advice Old and New	p. 262
Ardent Spirit	p. 263
The Gnats That Blur Our Vision	p. 264
The Act in Eternity	p. 266
Answering the Children	p. 267
The God of Banality	p. 269
Play Button	p. 270
The Secret Pillars of the Universe	p. 271
Equipment for the Endurance of Love	p. 274
What We Need	p. 275
Pulse	p. 276
The Mentor	p. 277
To the Author	p. 278
To Be Continued	p. 279
Burning Her Bridges	p. 280
Monument	p. 282
Author Interview	p. 284
Afterword	p. 285
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