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“Because I had been a loyal dues paying member of the World Wildlife Foundation for ten years, I got to join a pack of wolves. I wasn’t in charge, just one of seven, but it’s Yellowstone, so it was great. I watched the cubs, I howled, I even got to help out with the hunting.”Fall down an altogether different sort of rabbit hole in THE SOCIETY OF THE RECENTLY ESCAPED, a new ebook anthology of Hugh Behm-Steinberg’s plainspoken, absurd, hilarious, and deeply felt fabulist fictions.”Taylor Swift”: A pop phenom is marketed to the masses via a line of fully functional and wildly divergent clones, available with just a swipe of your smartphone”Thorns”: Take an insomniac wander through the thorn forest outside a certain Beauty’s castle”Goodwill”: After dying, a man has to go pick up his birth clothes and bring them to a placid Goodwill in the depths of the countryside, where he’s invited to write a note to the next person who’ll wear themPlus more than two dozen more elegant, impossible narrative gemsRife with little miracles and marvels in miniature, THE SOCIETY OF THE RECENTLY ESCAPED holds up a breezy, beguiling, bemusing mirror to our all-too-mundane workaday world.
