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Description:
An anthology
of mostly original fiction. Perhaps the first of an occasional series,
perhaps the one and only book of its kind. Only time and the dictates
of the elder mathematicians will tell.
Cover painting by Shelley Jackson.
20 stories ~ 140,000 words ~ 10 men ~ 10 women
Trampoline: an elastic mattress-like contrivance on which acrobats,
gymnasts, leap.
Trampoline: an original anthology edited by Kelly Link, the award-winning
author of Stranger Things Happen, and co-editor of the zine, Lady
Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet.
Trampoline: twenty astounding stories by Christopher Barzak, Richard
Butner, Alan DeNiro, Carol Emshwiller, Jeffrey Ford, Karen Joy Fowler,
Greer Gilman, John Gonzalez, Glen Hirshberg, Samantha Hunt, Alex
Irvine, Shelley Jackson, Beth Adele Long, Maureen McHugh, Susan
Mosser, Ed Park, Christopher Rowe, Dave Shaw, Vandana Singh, and
Rosalind Palermo Stevenson.
T he little creek behind my trailer in Kentucky
is called Frankum Branch.
R amnath Mishra's life changed forever one morning,
A ll this started when my father told my mother
she was a waste.
M argaret, do you see the leaves?
P ristine silence was the law in the gleaming white
halls of The Center for the Reification of Actual Probability.
O ne day when I was in the first grade Scott Arnold
told me he was going to wash my face with snow on my way home from
school.
L ately, Walter has been hard to live with.
I t's the start of a brand new life, Johnny."
N b. No story begins with the letter N. Is that
odd? Should we be worried?
E xclusion Rights for minors?
CONTENTS:
Christopher Rowe, The Force Acting on the Displaced Body
Ed Park, Well-Moistened with Cheap Wine, the Sailor and the Wayfarer
Sing of Their Absent Sweethearts
Shelley Jackson, Angel
John Gonzalez, Impala
Samantha Hunt, Famous Men (Three Stories)
Alex Irvine, Gus Dreams of Biting the Mail Man
Greer Gilman, A Crowd of Bone
Alan DeNiro, Fuming Woman
Maureen McHugh, Eight-Legged Story
Dave Shaw, King of Spain
Susan Mosser, Bump Ship
Vandana Singh, The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet
Glen Hirshberg, Shipwreck Beach
Jeffrey Ford, The Yellow Chamber
Beth Adele Long, Destroyer
Carol Emshwiller, Gods and Three Wishes
Christopher Barzak, Dead Boy Found
Rosalind Palermo Stevenson, Insect Dreams
Richard Butner, Ash City Stomp
Karen Joy Fowler, King Rat
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