Upright Beasts: Stories
Lincoln MichelPraise for Lincoln Michel:
"Lincoln Michel is one of contemporary literary culture's greatest natural resources."—Justin Taylor, Vice
Time passes unexpectedly or, perhaps, inexactly at the school. It's hard to remember what semester we are supposed to be in. Several of the clocks still operate, but they don't show the same time. The red bells, affixed in every room, erupt several times each day, yet the intervals between the disruptions wax & wane with an unknown algorithm. The windows are obscured by construction paper murals. Consequently, the sun rises & falls in complete ignorance of those of us attending the school. Many of us participated in the decorations in some lost point of childhood. A few of us still have dried glue under our fingernails.
In the room I sit in now, the windows are covered with a glitter & glue reenactment of the colonization of Roanoke by Sir Walter Raleigh. Outside of the window, who...
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Lincoln Michel is the author of the story collection Upright Beasts (Coffee House Press, 2015), which was named a best book of the year by Buzzfeed & reviewed in the New York Times; Vanity Fair; O, The Oprah Magazine; Tor.com & elsewhere. His fiction & poetry appear in The Paris Review, Granta, Tin House, Strange Horizons, Vice's Motherboard, & the Pushcart Prize anthology. His essays & criticism have been published by The New York Times, GQ, Rolling Stone, & The Guardian. He is the former editor-in-chief of Electric Literature. He is the co-editor of the science fiction anthology Gigantic Worlds (Gigantic Books 2015), the flash noir anthology Tiny Crimes (Catapult, 2018), & the forthcoming horror anthology Tiny Nightmares (Catapult, 2020).