Description
Book SynopsisDuring the strange and unsettling second year of COVID-19, Margaret Randall suddenly found herself writing short stories. The author of over 150 books of poetry, essays, biography, nonfiction and translations,
Lupe’s Dream and Other Stories is her first collection of fiction. These stories are as unsettling as the times. In one way or another, each references life in a near-future where scarcities have become dramatic, space strangely unfamiliar, and time moves in unexpected directions. After several intense months of writing, the stories stopped as mysteriously as they’d begun.
Table of Contents
- Lupe’s Dream 1
- El Lugar 12
- Carmen’s Story 23
- The Table 35
- Ruth’s Time 43
- The Photograph 55
- Procreate 65
- The Invitation 78
- Wind 92Sam’s Self 103
- How Norman Stopped Being Anxious 114
- Not What it Looks Like 124
- Do You Want Music? 132
- Little Margaret 142
- How Things Have Always Been 150
- Casa Alegre 164
- Erasure 178
- The Ring 193
- Both Sides, No Middle 203
- The Extinction 213
- Water: The Mirage 223
- Scheherazade’s New World 230
- Another World 241
- About the Author 253
