About the Author

Ursula Pflug is author of the novels Green Music, The Alphabet Stones, Motion Sickness (a flash novel illustrated by SK Dyment), the novellas Mountain and Down From, and the story collections After the Fires and Harvesting the Moon. Her fiction has appeared internationally in award winning genre and literary publications including Lightspeed, Fantasy, Strange Horizons, Postscripts, Leviathan, LCRW, and Bamboo Ridge. Her short stories have been taught in universities in Canada and India, and she has collaborated extensively with filmmakers, playwrights, choreographers and installation artists. Her fiction has won small press awards abroad and been a finalist for the Aurora, ReLit and KM Hunter Awards as well as the 3 Day Novel and Descant Novella Contests at home. Pflug's work has been funded by The Ontario Arts Council, the Canada Council for the Arts and The Laidlaw Foundation.

Reviews

"Pflug's excellent third story collection (after Harvesting the Moon) showcases her mature, rich, and immersive storytelling."
--Publishers Weekly"Ursula Pflug creates works that test the boundaries between mainstream fiction and the literature of the fantastic. Although her stories are difficult to classify, terms such as magic realism, surrealism, and slipstream come to mind."
--Tangent Magazine "Ursula Pflug's stories are the kind you want to carry around with you for those days when it feels like you're living in a strange and incomprehensible world; her stories will make you feel less alone. They are wondrous and unique little creatures that desire nothing more than to play fetch with your weirdest dreams. They are wild inventions built of words and sentences that dig into your psyche and send back reports about all you never knew of the world. They are sly and joyous, scary and entrancing, profound, unsettling, amusing, and utterly--perfectly!--unique."
--Matthew Cheney, Hudson Prize winning author of Blood: Stories"Ursula Pflug has to be one of the best short story writers I've ever read. There is no place to enter or leave an Ursula Pflug story that is not a portal to dark wonder. First you go in and find transformed worlds; then, when you come out with new vision, your own world changes as you observe it. Enter, and I promise you will be changed."
--Candas Jane Dorsey, author of Black Wine and The Adventures of Isabel"An extraordinary collection of magical stories that will wrap you in a timeless embrace and carry you away. Ursula Pflug's wonderfully gentle and ultimately wise insights will break your heart, bring you hope, and encourage you to seek out the enchanted portals of creativity and love that you might otherwise have missed."
--Lisa de Nikolits, author of Rotten Peaches and The Occult Persuasion and the Anarchist's Solution