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Short TailsA book of short prose from the writer who spent his career shrinking fiction toward its essentials. The title is a pun: short tales told short, and the opposite of tall tales. Tarnawsky offered these as honest stories, however outrageous, rather than lies meant to titillate. Across two dozen prose pieces the collection cuts into the absurd nature of human life. A body shrinks until it is a single eye watching its own end. A man screams in pain as if

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after his death

Polyphony is several independent lines sounding at once

General issues carry no single theme and no tribute subject

and sexual fantasy held in a single ruminating interior

The method underneath it is journalistic: Leventhal frames her fiction around the four questions a reporter asks

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then my dreams would fall at exactly the same speed as the densest

and on the nature of genius and madness

between a young orphan's waking life and a dream world that keeps pulling at him

Jaffe wrote them on a two-month sabbatical in 2008

Haske located Jaffe's docufictional style closer in spirit to free verse than to standard fiction