Shut Up/Look Pretty is a thing you should buy.

September 30, 2011

It has been published by the awesome Tiny Hardcore Press, by Ms. Roxane Gay. It is called Shut Up/Look Pretty.  It is filled with words by Erin Fitzgerald, Kirsty Logan, Lauren Becker, Michelle Reale, and me. It is filled with words in the form of stories in the form of chapbooks. Here’s the description of mine:

The five stories in A Great Dark Sleep: Stories for the Next World  explore death and what follows. These stories are by turns gothic, sweet, funny, fanciful, tragic, playful, and even gruesome. Whatever the tone, whatever the tune, these stories are all written in the language of loss: that ancient tongue the dead have left their loved ones to make sense of.

So anyway, you should definitely order this book because holy shit is it good. These writers will eat your bones and read them back to you like the I Ching. So here you are. And you are welcome.