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Large Garbage: A Radio Belly Single
In the surreal world of Buffy Cram’s stories, someone or something has slipped beneath the skins of her already beleaguered characters, rearranging the familiar into something strange and even sinister, making off with their emotional and even physical goods.In Large A Radio Belly Single, a smug suburbanite becomes obsessed with the "hybrids," the wandering mob of intellectual vagrants overrunning his complacent little cul de sac, snacking on pate and reciting poetry. Equally repelled by the hybrids' uncleanliness and intrigued by their freedom, Henry draws dangerously close to their secret nighttime life of sloshing claret and Proust quotes that overflow from finger-printed wine glasses and dirt-smudged lips. As the LA Times this "'new breed of homelessness'...cleverly envisions an alternative to the ever-widening circle of consumption that defines us now."
26 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 24, 2012
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About the author
Buffy Cram
3 books18 followersOriginally from Victoria, BC, Buffy has spent the last decade teaching and writing in Vancouver, Montreal, Boston, Texas, Mexico, South Korea, South America and various parts of Europe. She currently divides her time between San Francisco and Berlin, Germany.
Buffy’s fiction has appeared in Prairie Fire, The Bellevue Literary Review and the D&M anthology, “Darwin’s Bastards: Stories From Tomorrow.” She won a National Magazine Award for Best Student Writer in 2006, was a fiction finalist for the 2009 Western Magazine Award and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her first collection of short fiction, “Radio Belly” will be released in April, 2012.
Buffy’s fiction has appeared in Prairie Fire, The Bellevue Literary Review and the D&M anthology, “Darwin’s Bastards: Stories From Tomorrow.” She won a National Magazine Award for Best Student Writer in 2006, was a fiction finalist for the 2009 Western Magazine Award and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her first collection of short fiction, “Radio Belly” will be released in April, 2012.
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March 20, 2012
This story set in the seemingly banal world of an everyday suburb is anything but 'normal'. Teeting on the edge of our own reality, Large Garbage subtly and intriguingly slips into the realm of the uncanny. If this is any indication of the rest of the collection (Radio Belly), we're in for a treat from a new voice in fiction.
March 21, 2012
Buffy Cram describes a surreal world of disenfranchised artists where literature is a thing of the past, replaced by "rational" thought and jobs in the maths and sciences... did I say surreal? Large Garbage may take place in an "alternate world", but there are many parallels to the current state of the world.
May 4, 2012
The Large Garbage: Radio Belly Single has the distinction of being the first e-book I’ve ever read – and what a great experience! Buffy Cram’s vivid prose and quirky, yet relatable characters pulled me into this futuristic world very fast, and I’m hungry for more. I look forward to reading the rest of the stories in her new anthology Radio Belly.
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