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Fiction Short Stories (single Author)

Homebodies

Short Stories

by (author) Amy LeBlanc

Publisher
Great Plains Publications
Initial publish date
May 2023
Category
Short Stories (single author)
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781773371016
    Publish Date
    May 2023
    List Price
    $22.95

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"Homebodies will leave readers entertained and enlightened - and maybe a little terrified." - Literary Review of Canada
"LeBlanc surprises and disturbs, to the reader's intense anguish - in this collection's case, a good thing." - Winnipeg Free Press
"Original, inherently fascinating, and with a narrative storytelling style that is ideal for Gothic fiction and the short story format. . . a highly recommended pick." - Midwest Book Review
Homebodies is an uncanny and ghostly debut with stories that provoke dread, abjection, and horror. The tales are intertwined and linked like a chain of dried daisies or butterfly legs: someone you used to know is on trial for murder. You work at a funeral home. Your dead grandmother calls you on the phone. You pin and preserve butterflies on a corkboard as a strange girl knocks on your door. You put a bike lock on the fridge. You sleepwalk. You attend a party. You get sick. You get an IV infusion. You don't get better.
The stories in Homebodies show that you don't need a house to be haunted - the body can do that all on its own.

About the author

Amy LeBlanc is a writer and editor based in Calgary, Alberta. She is a recipient of the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Emerging Artist Award and author of the poetry collection I Know Something You Don't Know.

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Editorial Reviews

"Homebodies will leave readers entertained and enlightened - and maybe a little terrified." - Literary Review of Canada
"Unsettling and creepy." - CBC Weekend Morning Show
"LeBlanc surprises and disturbs, to the reader's intense anguish - in this collection's case, a good thing." - Winnipeg Free Press
"Original, inherently fascinating, and with a narrative storytelling style that is ideal for Gothic fiction and the short story format. . . a highly recommended pick." - Midwest Book Review
"Homebodies is about the living who are isolated, the deceased who infiltrate our quotidian realms, and all those lacunas that quiver between - uncanny and sometimes welcome spectres of love." - Alberta Views

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