Search Worlds Without End

Nineteen writers dig into the imaginative spaces between conventional genres--realistic and fantastical, scholarly and poetic, personal and political--and bring up gems of new fiction: interstitial fiction.

This is the literary mode of the new century, a reflection of the complex, ambiguous, and challenging world that we live in. These nineteen stories, by some of the most interesting and innovative writers working today, will change your mind about what stories can and should do as they explore the imaginative space between conventional genres. The editors garnered stories from new and established authors in the United States, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom, and also fiction translated from Spanish, Hungarian, and French. The collection features stories from Christopher Barzak, Colin Greenland, Holly Phillips, Rachel Pollack, Vandana Singh, Anna Tambour, Catherynne Valente, Leslie What, and others.

Contents:

• Introduction (Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing) - essay by Heinz Insu Fenkl
• Alternate Anxieties - shortstory by Karen Jordan Allen
• What We Know About the Lost Families of -- -- House - shortstory by Christopher Barzak
• Black Feather - shortstory by K. Tempest Bradford
• A Map of the Everywhere - shortstory by Matthew Cheney
• The Utter Proximity of God - shortstory by Michael J. DeLuca
• When It Rains, You'd Better Get Out of Ulga - shortstory by Adrián Ferrero
• Timothy - shortstory by Colin Greenland
• A Drop of Raspberry - shortstory by Csilla Kleinheincz
• Queen of the Butterfly Kingdom - shortstory by Holly Phillips
• Burning Beard: The Dreams and Visions of Joseph Ben Jacob, Lord Viceroy of Egypt - shortstory by Rachel Pollack
• Pallas at Noon - shortstory by Joy Marchand [as by Joy Remy ]
• The Shoe in SHOES' Window - shortstory by Anna Tambour
• Rats - shortstory by Veronica Schanoes
• Emblemata - shortstory by Léa Silhol
• Willow Pattern - shortstory by Jon Singer
• Hunger - shortstory by Vandana Singh
• Climbing Redemption Mountain - shortstory by Mikal Trimm
• A Dirge for Prester John - shortstory by Catherynne M. Valente
• Post hoc - shortstory by Leslie What
• Afterword: The Space Between - essay by Delia Sherman and Theodora Goss