When Mystical Creatures Attack! / Kathleen Founds.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Founds, Kathleen, author.

Series:

John Simmons short fiction award.

The John Simmons short fiction award

Standardized Title:

Short stories. Selections

Language:

English

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (182 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University Of Iowa Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In When Mystical Creatures Attack!, Ms. Freedman's high school English class writes essays in which mystical creatures resolve the greatest sociopolitical problems of our time. Students include Janice Gibbs, "a feral child with excessive eyeliner and an anti-authoritarian complex that would be interesting were it not so ill-informed," and Cody Splunk, an aspiring writer working on a time machine. Following a nervous breakdown, Ms. Freedman corresponds with Janice and Cody from an insane asylum run on the capitalist model of cognitive-behavioral therapy, where inmates practice water aerobics to

Contents:

When mystical creatures attack!

Warm greetings

The un-game

Before

I have borne witness

The turnip

Nicoli, who was thrown to the wolves, 1874

Today is my birthday

Frankye

Recipes for disaster

Black socketed, blind

The wormhole

The holy innocent

First the sea gave up her dead

Mexico foxtrot rides again

Their trunks were their handles

Virtue of the month

Elephants never forget

Uncommon happiness

In the hall of Old Testament miracles

Faux rose

Hurry up please, its time

Resurrection snow globe

Like the Russian said

The apple.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

The John Simons Short Fiction Award

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-60938-290-0

OCLC:

888392209