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The beguiling stories in Electricity & Other Dreams are in their own category, which
might be described as Southern gothic meets tall tale meets dirty realism. In these
magical yet down-to-earth stories we meet an old man made out of cans, an
electrician who makes light simply by touching a bulb, a weatherman who arranges
his own weather, a plumber who also gets rid of ghosts. Fortune cookie fortunes
actually come true, alligators work in a factory, and Japanese warlords battle
on a jet plane. And then there’s the killer crawfish. Every story in this fantastic
collection is gorgeously gritty and lots of fun. Micah Dean Hicks is a true
original. ELIZABETH STUCKEY-FRENCH O. Henry Award-winner and author of
The Revenge of the Radioactive Lady.
Dr. Micah Dean Hicks is a Calvino Prize-winning author of fabulist fiction. His
& Other
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work has appeared in EPOCH Magazine, Chicago Tribune, Witness, New
Letters, and Indiana Review, among others. His story collection, Electricity and
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Other Dreams,as
was Southern
recently published by New American Press and received a starred review
from Publishers Weekly. He received his PhD in creative writing and folklore from Florida State University.
Currently,
he teaches in
the creative writing BFA program at Arkansas Tech University.
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