LEADER 02451nam 2200517 a 450 001 9910791962403321 005 20230725021505.0 010 $a1-57366-818-4 035 $a(CKB)2560000000079544 035 $a(EBL)835709 035 $a(OCoLC)772845460 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000592046 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11379778 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000592046 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10729185 035 $a(PQKB)10511296 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC835709 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse27095 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL835709 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10527807 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000079544 100 $a20091015d2010 uy 1 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMuseum of the weird$b[electronic resource] /$fAmelia Gray 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aTuscaloosa $cFC2/University of Alabama Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (172 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-57366-156-2 327 $aBabies -- Waste -- Unsolved mystery -- Dinner -- A javelina story -- The darkness -- The cottage cheese diet -- Death of a beast -- Thoughts while strolling -- Trip advisory: the boyhood home of former president Ronald Reagan -- Code of operation: snake farm -- The tortoise and the hare -- Fish -- There will be sense -- Diary of the blockage -- The cube -- Love, mortar -- This quiet complex -- Vultures -- The pit -- The picture window -- The vanished -- The suitcase -- The movement. 330 $a Winner of FC2's American Book Review/Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize A monogrammed cube appears in your town. Your landlord cheats you out of first place in the annual Christmas decorating contest. You need to learn how to love and care for your mate-a paring knife. These situations and more reveal the wondrous play and surreal humor that make up the stories in Amelia Gray's stunning collection of stories: Museum of the Weird. Acerbic wit and luminous prose mark these shorts, while sickness and death lurk amids 606 $aShort stories, American 615 0$aShort stories, American. 676 $a813/.6 700 $aGray$b Amelia$f1982-$01581475 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910791962403321 996 $aMuseum of the weird$93862985 997 $aUNINA