An artist befriends an ocean. Organs exit bodies of their own volition. A man cuts himself in half to better multitask. These are merely a few of the things that take place in Jason Jordan's second collection Cloud and Other Stories. Organized according to where the stories were written, Jordan's eclectic compilation traces his path from Louisville, Kentucky, to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, through fiction. Though he's absent from these stories, they're firmly rooted in the places he's lived, the places that have influenced him and his work beyond measure.

