Laskowski, T: Bystanders
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Tara Laskowski is the author of Modern Manners for Your Inner Demons. She was awarded the Kathy Fish Fellowship from SmokeLong Quarterly in 2009, and won the grand prize for the 2010 Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Awards Series. Her fiction has been published in the Norton anthology Flash Fiction International, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Mid-American Review, and numerous other journals, magazines, and anthologies. She has been the editor of SmokeLong Quarterly since 2010 and lives in Virginia with her husband, toddler, and two whiny cats.

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"There's still plenty left," one of the characters in The Witness says, referencing a cake, but the reader has been taken deep enough into the story to know that there's no way that can be true, because there's not enough of anything left for the main character. And in one story after another in this excellent collection, characters are tested when their expectations are strained and even shattered, not by the extraordinary, but more devastatingly, by the ordinary. Tara Laskowski's collection will be welcomed by readers who care about witnessing the significant rather than the spectacular." Gary Fincke, author and winner of the Flannery O'Connor Prize for Sorry I Worried You "Tara Laskowski's stories are deceptively cozy: soft suburban street lights out front, but a too-deep swimming pool out back. With a deft touch, she ravels and unravels her characters' lives so seamlessly; they never know what's coming until they're in too deep, and what's scarier, the reader doesn't, either." Jen Michalski, author, The Tide King and The Summer She Was Under Water "In this debut that resonates, Tara Laskowski's women and men drift through an imperfect suburbia, much like the disembodied souls who haunt her characters day and night. Laskowski has a natural ability to pen the banal, juxtaposed with the horror that often lurks just outside the light that spills from our windows. She digs into the crevices and corners of everyday lives to find the grit, the dirt, the ghostsour deepest secretsthen finds a way to turn it all into crystal clear story moments that will enlighten her readers." Tara L. Masih, series editor, The Best Small Fictions "Tara Laskowski's stories show off a wonderful fusion of freshness and experience." Alan Cheuse, NPR reviewer, All Things Considered "There's still plenty left," one of the characters in The Witness says, referencing a cake, but the reader has been taken deep enough into the story to know that there's no way that can be true, because there's not enough of anything left for the main character. And in one story after another in this excellent collection, characters are tested when their expectations are strained and even shattered, not by the extraordinary, but more devastatingly, by the ordinary. Tara Laskowski's collection will be welcomed by readers who care about witnessing the significant rather than the spectacular." Gary Fincke, author and winner of the Flannery O'Connor Prize for Sorry I Worried You

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