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Patrick Cottrell

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	Sorry to Disrupt the Peace 3.35 avg rating — 3,202 ratings — published 2017 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Small Odysseys: Selected Shorts Presents 35 New Stories by Hannah Tinti (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author) (Foreword), Rabih Alameddine 3.82 avg rating — 274 ratings — published 2022 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	McSweeney's #62: The Queer Fiction Issue by Patrick Cottrell (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Dave Eggers (Editor), Claire Boyle (Editor) 3.95 avg rating — 196 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	McSweeney's #49 by Dave Eggers (Editor), Emily Raboteau (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Megan Mayhew Bergman (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.76 avg rating — 125 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pets: An Anthology 4.45 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Caketrain Issue 11 by Joe Aguilar (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jessica Alexander (Goodreads Author), Jon Cone 4.71 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ploughshares Summer 2021 by Aimee Bender (Goodreads Author) (Guest-Editor), Nana Kwame Adjei-Breniyah, Rumaan Alam (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 21 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Afternoon Hours of a Hermit 4.64 avg rating — 11 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ennui (Vestiges 02) by Jared Daniel Fagen (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Anton Ivanov (Editor), Evan Lavender-Smith (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The first thing you can do to contain your life is to just stop buying things.”
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“Why wouldn’t anyone admit that a life is not a life but a deathward existence?”
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“Pragmatic, I have always preferred to be in the background, unobserved; I preferred to play the role of the detached observer/receiver, the way one would live if one lived and spoke and shat inside a puffy white cloud floating along above the world harmlessly like a balloon.”
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The poll will end at 11:59 pm on April 30th. The discussion will start on June 1st

The Remainder by Alia Trabucco Zerán

4 votes, 50.0%

Sorry to Disrupt the Peace by Patrick Cottrell (Patti Yumi Cottrell at the time of publication)

2 votes, 25.0%

Green Island by Shawna Yang Ryan

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