Never Hit By Lightning

by Tucker Lieberman (Editor)

This collection of short stories and poems explores life's dark side. Featuring the work of established and new writers, Never Hit By Lightning paints a world with thunderstorms, booze, a dying father, a sick brother, soldiers, hospitals, a magical mad scientist, a ghost, and the threads of memory that bind us to the past.

76 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

Tucker Lieberman is the author of the novel Most Famous Short Film of All Time (tRaum Books, 2022).

He also wrote Ten Past Noon: Focus and Fate at Forty (2020), Painting Dragons: What Storytellers Need to Know About Writing Eunuch Villains (2018), and Bad Fire: A Memoir of Disruption (3rd ed., 2024). His bilingual poetry book, Enkidu is Dead and Not Dead / Enkidu está muerto y no lo está (2021), inspired by the Epic of Gilgamesh, was a finalist in the 2020 Grayson Books poetry contest and nominated for a 2022 SFPA Elgin Award.

His essays and stories are in anthologies including Instant Classic (That No One Will Read) (2023), It Came From the Closet (2022), the 2021 Lambda finalist Trans-Galactic Bike Ride, the 2012 Lambda finalist Letters for my Brothers: Transitional Wisdom in Retrospect, and the 2011 Lambda winner Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in Jewish Community.

He and his husband, the science fiction writer Arturo Serrano, live in Bogotá, Colombia.

Reviews

[Jennifer Walker · Rating 5 out of 5]

Editors Tucker Lieberman and Andrew Tivey have assembled a beautiful, eclectic collection of work. Light some candles, pour yourself a glass of wine and snuggle up with your favorite quilt for an hour or two of thoughtful reading.