by Evan Pellervo
Inspired by Tolstoy, Salinger, and Lydia Davis, these stories try to make the most of the present. Existential uncertainties are explored; the consistent goal is to find a way to optimism.
This eclectic collection contains clouds and journeys and dogs and confused people and every season and a big gamble and… a leaping ocelot!
The world can sometimes seem pretty bleak; Short Happy Stories is a book for anyone who wants to read fiction that is uniquely uplifting.
Evan Pellervo is a fiction writer and an independent contractor who has worked on writing projects in several industries. He currently lives in Monterey, CA.
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Published by Olga Zilberbourg
Olga Zilberbourg’s English-language debut LIKE WATER AND OTHER STORIES (WTAW Press) explores “bicultural identity hilariously, poignantly,” according to The Moscow Times. It also dives into topics of bisexuality and immigrant parenthood. Anthony Marra called it “…a book of succinct abundance, dazzling in its particulars, expansive in its scope,” and Karen Bender said, “Olga Zilberbourg is a writer to read right now.”
Zilberbourg’s writing has appeared in World Literature Today, The Believer, Electric Literature, Lit Hub, Alaska Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. Born in Leningrad, USSR in a Russian-speaking Jewish family, she makes her home in San Francisco, California. She has published four collections of stories in Russia, including most recent Задержи дыхание [Hold Your Breath] from Vremya Press. She serves as a consulting editor at Narrative Magazine and as a co-facilitator of the San Francisco Writers Workshop. Together with Yelena Furman, she has co-founded Punctured Lines, a feminist blog about literature from the former Soviet Union. She is currently at work on her first novel.
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