![]() ![]() ![]() The standout, “Blood & Formalin,” follows an embalmer in a time of war as he is confronted with what caring for the dead really means. “Blowflies” calls on the author’s Appalachian heritage and evokes a lonely mood, while “How to Tell the Future by Tea Leaves, Stars, and Cards” uses a child’s limited understanding of her weirdly unsettling environment to set a scene both luminous and stifling. ![]() Wagner ( An Unnatural Life) collects 10 speculative shorts loosely connected by a quietly brooding aesthetic and themes of how humanity is changed by brushes with the supernatural or extraterrestrial. ![]()
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