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Cemetery management. A side gig breathing fire. Tattooing teeth for a living. Wrangling camera-ready squirrels for the movies. These are stories about the jobs people never wanted, always wanted, or still can't land-the jobs they do for lack of a better option, or to support family honor and free honey buns. They are stories about beloved pets, left-behind lovers, family members who won't negotiate, and treacherous bank balances. So enter the thrift store, the side show, the senior center, the zoo, for a cup of coffee or pint of beer, and a few work opportunities you never expected. PRAISE FOR TERESA MILBRODT: Anthony Doerr ("All The Light We Cannot See" and "The Shell Collector") on "Bearded Women: Stories" - Teresa Milbrodt writes funny, inventive, strange, and engaging fiction. In each of her stories lies plain evidence of meticulousness; well-rendered gestures, astonishingly unique characters, lovely and specific detailing of scene. Michael Martone ("Fort Wayne is Seventh on Hitler's List" and "Michael Martone: Fictions") on "Larissa Takes Flight: Stories" -Donald Barthelme often said he wanted to be on the leading edge of the junk phenomenon. The deadpanned nuggets found in Teresa Milbrodt's collection of guileless-o-grams, Larissa's Guide to Trying to Be a Good Person in the World, mops up after the delightful detritus of the great Don B. Understated to the point of having the bends, these flatly flat fictions juice the form, inject the quotidian with steroids used off-label to produce the ripped and sculpted musculature of raw awe. Lex Williford (author of "Macauley's Thumb" and co-editor of "The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction") on "Larissa Takes Flight: Stories" -Teresa Milbrodt's new collection of flash fiction...makes the ordinary extraordinary and the extraordinary ordinary, as F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, and reading her hilarious Kafkaesque internal monologues is a bit like eating grilled cauliflower and broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables. Nobody out there writes like Teresa Milbrodt, nobody. A one-of-a-kind collection. PANK Magazine on "Bearded Women: Stories" - The bizarre aspects of the characters in the stories of Bearded Women serve a particular function, to help us to look closely. Because the narrator in 'Bianca's Body' has a lower torso with sexual organs sticking out of her abdomen, we pay closer attention to the dilemma she faces. Consciously or not, we analyze much more deeply than we would if the narrator had nothing odd about her. In this way, Milbrodt is able to present us universal problems in a way that seems absolutely fresh and new." Asimov's on "Bearded Women: Stories" -"ChiZine Publications delivers a phenomenal collection with Teresa Milbrodt's Bearded Women... Milbrodt's writing is akin to that of Carol Emshwiller or Karen Russell (Swamplandia!). The most outré beings and events are presented with matter-of-fact mimetic clarity and emotional empathy."

• | Author: Teresa Milbrodt, Kaylee Binninger, Linda C. Braus
• | Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: May 17, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 130 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1718640773
• | ISBN-13: 9781718640771