Magic Helicopter Press

5.5x7.5 | Saddlestitched | 44 pg
First printing: January 2011, 75 numbered copies
$6

• DESCRIPTION •

Fantastical and fantastically true, Jen Gann’s stories dive into the animals in all of us: the ghost horses, the roasted bees, the washed ashore tigers, the gorillas chained to the mayor’s statue, underbiters and flower-scalped and gym bombers and mothers and children and slot machines you can trick by sticking a cookie in. When Back Tuck mewls from the bottom of the hill, it mewls of everything we tried to push down.

Cover design by Tag Savage

• EXCERPTS •

"Arrival of the Bees" in Gigantic
"Tiger Town" in PANK
"Back Tuck" in elimae

• REVIEWS •

"Brilliant little fantastical stories that read like fables with a kick, a violent twist, a frenetic yet measured feeling that sends you loving her characters then dreading what will happen to them." — Amber Sparks at Vouched

"The power of Gann's story is not just that it evokes a great deal of compassion for these rejected characters, but also that it confronts, yet again, the notion of what is "normal."" — Leila Emery at Lines and Stars

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