July 21st, 2010 / 3:45 pm
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We Know What We Are by Mary Hamilton

This gorgeous book is now available for pre-order by Rose Metal Press.

In We Know What We Are, worlds are made, torn apart, drowned. The stories go small: a girl ties a ribbon on a present. The stories go big: a war is raged against the evening sky. The characters in these thirteen short short fictions find themselves in less-than-desirable circumstances. They know their plights. They acknowledge their situations. They give in. They overcome. They daydream a world where everything will be all right.
“The concise stories in this dynamic collection are bursting with moments of stark urgency and unexpected humor, with imagery that moves seamlessly from the bizarre to the oddly familiar, and situations that shift from the ludicrous to the undeniably sad.
Mary Hamilton’s fiction is dream-like, precise, fresh, unexpected, cumulative, delightful, and at times, incantatory. She is a tenacious writer, working each word, each sentence, each image, the way a carver works the stone. It is fun, and fascinating, to see where she goes next.”
—Dinty W. Moore, author of Between Panic and Desire

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11 Comments

  1. July 21st, 2010 / 7:16 pm Janey Smith—

      They came by night. Awesome.

  2. July 21st, 2010 / 7:37 pm Tracy Bowling—

      This looks amazing. Thanks, Roxane.

  3. July 21st, 2010 / 11:16 pm Janey Smith—

      They came by night. Awesome.

  4. July 21st, 2010 / 11:37 pm Tracy Bowling—

      This looks amazing. Thanks, Roxane.

  5. July 22nd, 2010 / 11:50 am Richard—

      Very cool. Looks great, congrats Mary.

  6. July 22nd, 2010 / 3:50 pm Richard—

      Very cool. Looks great, congrats Mary.

  7. July 22nd, 2010 / 7:37 pm Sean—

      Grabbed mine. Those that glow flash, buy now!

  8. July 22nd, 2010 / 11:37 pm Sean—

      Grabbed mine. Those that glow flash, buy now!

  9. July 23rd, 2010 / 2:56 am chris r—

      really liked the excerpt. def going to order a copy. does she have anything else online?

  10. July 23rd, 2010 / 6:56 am chris r—

      really liked the excerpt. def going to order a copy. does she have anything else online?

  11. August 12th, 2010 / 10:00 am We Know What We Are : Orange Alert and Rose Metal Press at The Whistler « The Green Lantern Press—

      […] by Mary Hamilton and selected by contest judge Dinty W. Moore, WE KNOW WHAT WE ARE is a collection of 13 flash fictions in which worlds are made, torn apart, drowned. The stories go […]