Váried Parályses

The cover image of Varied Paralyses: A Chapbook of Short Fiction, by Dale Stromberg. A man in a hat has been shot with arrows and fallen to his knees. He is surrounded by a swirl of dingbat characters.

A chapbook of short stories. Eight pieces that might be claustrophobic, or semi-hinged, or regretful, or vengeful, or sardonic, or evil.

☞ A drunkard commits armed robbery, armed with a venomous snake.

☞ An ecological event endangers a boy’s health; his mother is panicky, his father eerily unconcerned.

☞ A dying woman faces an impossible compromise.

☞ An ageing superhero worries for a future world she won’t be there to pacify.

☞ And more.

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These stories were previously published in JMWW, The Denver Quarterly, Litro US Online, and elsewhere. They are collected here for the first time, though readers of my older chapbook The Galoofus (now out of print) will recognise two stories from it.

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“I am an eternal fan of writing that marries the silly with the surreal—the humorous with the horrible. Stromberg's voice is mature yet fresh, and he brings a range of inventive scenes and prose to his stories.”

—Rysz Merey, author of A+E 4ever and A Father for Lilja