Light without Heat

by Kirkpatrick, Matthew

• ISBN13: 9781573661669
• ISBN10: 157366166X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-03-07
• Publisher: Fc2/Black Ice Books

Summary

Matthew Kirkpatrick's debut, Light without Heat, is an inventive, surprising collection of short stories full of odd, marginal characters rendered with surreal humor and lyrical, often beautiful language. Formally playful, these stories take the shape of biographies, instructions, glossaries, and diagrams, all ultimately in the service of depicting characters with emotional intensity. Stories in the collection explore the flawed nature of memory, workplace malaise, the isolation of home, and the last throes of ending love. No two stories in Light without Heat are the same, yet all of them work toward sharing human experience in new, innovative ways.

Author Biography

Matthew Kirkpatrick's fiction has appeared in the Notre Dame Review, Web Conjunctions, DIAGRAM, and elsewhere. He lives in Salt Lake City, Utah. Visit www.Iightwithoutheatbook.com

Table of Contents

Different Distances	p. 1
Instructions	p. 13
Light Without	p. 15
Pennsylvania	p. 39
The Saddening	p. 41
Crystal Castles	p. 47
Pineal Gland	p. 61
Throw Him in the Water	p. 63
Nevada	p. 77
The Celebrations	p. 79
The Most Amazing Attic	p. 93
The AuralSec Story, A Corporate History, Chapter 7: Our Dependable Grampy	p. 97
Animal Attacks	p. 113
Glossary	p. 115
The Board Game Monopoly	p. 123
The Sodding	p. 141
Pastoral	p. 143
Iceland	p. 151
Some Kirkpatricks	p. 153
Acknowledgments	p. 175
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