Q+1: Short Works from the Quadrants Series Authors

by Robert Ashley, Sumner Carnahan, Thomas Frick

Fiction. Short Stories. A bonus book included with the Quadrants Series, with stories by Robert Ashley, Sumner Carnahan, Thomas Frick, and L. K. Larsen. "The center point in Q+1 is simply enough the short an elastic vessel for fiction, able to accommodate narrative arcs, whether revealed in a chaptered micro-bildungsroman, as in Robert Ashley's 'The Hardware Days Almost Gone;' manifested as computer instructions in Sumner Carnahan's 'Authentic Incarnation;' told through the unreliable dual point-of-view narrator in Thomas Frick's 'Troubadour Awakening;' or, with a flash of epiphany, as in L. K. Larsen's 'Leave a Message.' By pushing the short story in these ways, the works demonstrate the realization of Frick's narrator when he quotes literary theorist George 'Difficulty is the armature of meaning.' Certainly, many of the fourteen pieces in Q+1—and the novels they accompany—push story to its limits. And still the center holds."—Julia Goldberg

136 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2011