The Dominant Animal: Stories

This collection of short stories from a young literary artist presents innovative and ambitious works. For author Kathryn Scanlan compression is key. Sentences are trimmed and tuned for maximum impact, resulting in a palpable pulse of excitability and distress. Love is questioned at various locations, and interior life manifests physically. Characters, human and animal, eat, breathe, provoke, and injure each other.

Scanlan moves from expansive moods to unease and violence, from deliberate ambiguity to shocking exactitude. Disturbances accumulate as the collection progresses. Conclusions often open rather than tie up, twisting alertly. No mercy is shown, and these stories are merciless, strange, and masterful.

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