Full Description
Chloe N Clark's Patterns of Orbit spans genres, perspectives, and styles to articulate contemporary uncertainties in a rapidly changing world. Steadily gazing into and across the uncanny valley, Clark examines those jarring or subtle shifts in familiar stories, writing light into dark, and offering slivers of hope despite the longest of odds. Successfully navigating a potent concoction of science fiction, folktale, and horror this collection of literary, character driven stories combines the accumulated forces and darker natures of those genre elements, unleashing the terrors of alien fungi, forest demons, and interplanetary specters upon her characters. However, while these characters, capable and intelligent, face off against their prescribed monsters, it is their existential misgivings on the state of their worlds or conditions that will leave an indelible mark on the reader. An impressive entry in the literary/genre hybrid canon, this collection offers a satisfying read to the connoisseurs of both genre and literary fiction. So, be bold. Take a swim through the anti-gravity. You are sure to be captured by Patterns of Orbit.
Contents
Contents
There is the World Within this Window 1
A Sense of Taste 5
Even the Night Sky Can Learn to be a Fist 13
The Waves Hear Every Promise You Make 15
The Day Lasts Longer the Further Away You Are 25
A Place You Know 27
This Skin You Call Your Own 31
Swingman 35
Buoyancy 39
Who Walks Beside You 41
Out in the Dark 51
Simultaneity 63
Wearing the Body 65
Long in the Tooth 79
Even the Veins of Leaves 81
Run the Line 93
Accidental Girls 97
Underwater Even Bells Sound Like Bodies 111
Static 113
Red as the Night Sky Burning 135
Supernova 137
Jumpers 139
Shapeless 149
The Ocean is Not Empty 157
We Are Still 165
So Far The Distance 167
