Sawn-off Tales

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ISBN: 9781844712922 | 1844712923
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 9/30/2006

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David Gaffney's compact, surreal tales are filled with poignancy and wit. Each story goes off like a tiny depth charge in the mind, leaving you with the trace memory of some new urban myth - comic, absurd and disturbingly true.

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The Volcano
Self-Portrait as a Cowbird
The Sublime
The Consolations of Astrology
Black Spark
Rowing to the Island
Into the Tunnel
Mirrors and Sunfish
Love Letters
Blue Crabs
Courtship
Orphic Tale
Mystic
Bed of Nails
Hearth
Tree of Mirrors
Memories of the Observatory and Planetarium
The Long March
My Grandmother Crosses the Gobi Desert
The Boxer Rebellion
A Great Aunt Remembers a Fossil-Hunting Trip to the Flaming Cliffs in Mongolia
Escape from the Chengsin Mission
Autobiography of Silence
Epic Descent
Pharaoh
The Emperor's Censor
Emperor with a Chainsaw
The Cannibal
The First Mental Hospital in America
Grace
Peskeompskut Falls
Mary Rowlandson's Captivity
Robert Frost in the Great Dismal Swamp
Eternal City
September Song
Through a Donkey's Eye
Inquisition
We Were Not the Greatest Generation
Building the Bomb Shelter
Cold Pastoral
Alphabet Soup
Burnt Offering
Mobile of Demons
The Man Who Never Said Much
On the Way Home from the Maternity Ward
Aunt Eleanor's Funeral
Good Neighbors
Rural Apocalypse
One Dog Night
Burning the Men
Naval Weapons Station
If You Really Want To Know
The Divorcee's Return
Fishing Lesson
Fish Story
Lepidopterist
Her File
Last Painting
Parula Warbler
The Night Before Christmas
Funeral Directions
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