The stories in Fast Machine come in three sizes: flash, regular, and too-long-for-journal-publication. Some were previously published. Some are brand-spanking new. The opening story ''State Liquor'' concerns a twenty-five-year-old woman and her eighteen-year-old husband trying to buy alcohol on their way to their strip mall jobs, the afternoon of their wedding. In ''Fistful,'' a pregnant teenager gets revenge on the young man who both impregnated and beat her, before leaving town with another man. In ''Habitrail,'' a woman returns home after the death of her father, to find her husband in communication with the television set and a god he calls Chaos, rather than her. There are over ninety stories in this collection. Repeated themes include: driving, smoking, teenagers, drinking, escape, the Midwest, masturbation, self-loathing, blood and loneliness.
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Fast Machine's excellence is a sure thing. Ellen's writing is amazing. I am a closet fan of everything she writes from essays to poetry to short fiction and it will be nice to have some of her writing, old and new, collected in one book. The best thing about Ellen's writing is that it has big brass balls. There is seemingly nothing she won t write about but more than the fearlessness is how Ellen writes about anything. She is willing to go there over and over and over but she does so really, really well. --Roxane Gay --The Rumpus
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Elizabeth Ellen's stories have appeared in numerous online and print journals over the last ten years, including elimae, Quick Fiction, Hobart, Lamination Colony, Mud Luscious, Sleepingfish, kill author, Pindeldyboz, and many others. She is the author of the chapbook Before You She Was a Pit Bull (Future Tense) and her collection of flash fictions, Sixteen Miles Outside of Phoenix, was included in A Peculiar Feeling of Restlessness: four chapbooks of short short fiction by four women (Rose Metal Press). She is from the Midwest.
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Elizabeth Ellen is the author of Before You She Was a Pit Bull (Future Tense), Sixteen Miles Outside of Phoenix (Rose Metal Press) and Fast Machine (Short Flight/Long Drive Books). She is from the Midwest.
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By BAC
Format:Paperback
Elizabeth Ellen throws it all at you in this handsome tome of alt-lit text.
Quick, witty and tender, these stories will scrape your mind knuckles and snap your soul vertebrates.
They will fugg you like a fat girl. Kapow. Kapow. Kaboom.
Quick, witty and tender, these stories will scrape your mind knuckles and snap your soul vertebrates.
They will fugg you like a fat girl. Kapow. Kapow. Kaboom.
