The Infernal Republic
Contents:
- Urban Reef (or, It's Hard to Find a Friend in the City)
- The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living
- Filth and Splendor: A Love Story
- 215
- Town of Thorns
- Everything Has Been Arranged (or, Chamomile Tea at 10,000 Feet)
- In Springtime, You Can Hear the Swallows Screaming
- Metropolitan
- Toast, Belladonna, and the Heat Death of the Universe
- In the North Woords (or, The War of Art)
- Still Life with Pterodactyls
- Putting the Damage On
- The Blue Bridge
- Flesh, Blood, and Some of the Parts (Le sang du monde)
- Certain Shades of Blue Look Green, Depending on the Light
- Marble Forest, Karstic Heart
- The Infinite Monkey Theorem
Synopsis:
A lonely demon in a remote corner of Hell oversees a divine but rigged typing contest. A sentient house in San Francisco decides to become vacant once again... by any means necessary. A supernatural first date in Hong Kong goes hysterically, horribly awry.
How did this become my life? And... now what? These questions recur throughout
The Infernal Republic as a cast of characters you'd either love or run from confront the unlikely and surmount the impossible.
The Infernal Republic is the new collection of short fiction from Marshall Moore, the author of
The Concrete Sky,
Black Shapes in a Darkened Room, and
An Ideal for Living. Comprising stories published between 2003 and 2009, as well as several unique to this book,
The Infernal Republic is Moore at his best: surreal, hilarious, wise, brutal, and sometimes just plain wrong.
