Publisher's Synopsis
- An expanded and revised second edition of an award-winning cult favorite, Kill Marguerite. The second edition contains four new stories, including one completely original to the book. The stories in Slug have been previously published to great acclaim but limited distribution, including in The &NOW Awards: The Best Innovative Writing (2009), Thirty Under Thirty: An Anthology of Innovative Fiction by Younger Writers (2011), Foglifter, The Evergreen Review, and more. They have been caught in a wide variety of college classrooms, and nominated for awards such as a Pushcart Prize in Fiction, James Tiptree Jr. Award in Feminist Science Fiction, and a Best of the Net Award.
- Kill Marguerite was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Debut Fiction and the winner of the Devil's Kitchen Award in Fiction.
- The stories in Slug are idiosyncratic in style and form, playing with genre in a way that will delight literary writers and lovers of craft. The pieces are very invested in adolescent genres-which are typically feminized, often abject-in ways that most short story collections are not. Tapping into our current nostalgia for/interest in YA and other markers of 90s/00s adolescence, Slug blurs boundaries between fiction and theatre, fiction and poetry, and fiction and creative nonfiction/essay.
