With most of these stories only being a page and a half long, I can't much see the point of reviewing all or most of them (plus there's 80 of them and dude, I don't have that much time and wrestling's on tonight!).
Therefore here's a list of authors I discovered and want to read more of thanks to this book, which is often the reason I'll scour short story collections:
- Don Shea
- Alison Townsend
- Stace Budzko
- Katherine Weber
- Steve Almond
- Hannah Bottomy
- Kim Church
- Richard Bausch
- John Biguenet
- Stacey Richter
- Jack Handey
- Samantha Schoech
- Leigh Allison Wilson
- Utahna Faith
- David Galef
- Jenny Hall
- Barry Gifford
- Leonardo Alishan
- Jennifer A. Howard
- Barbara Jacksha
- Ander Monson
- Patricia Marx
- Tony Earley
- Kit Coyne Irwin
- Tom Hazuka
- Sherrie Flick
- Christopher Merrill
- G.A. Ingersoll - ("Test" is a true gem, this book is worth reading just for that story)
- Opal Palmer Adisa
- Bruce Holland Rogers
- Michael Knight - "The Mesmerist" is another gem...would love to see this in novel length, and/or as a movie