Flann, KathyU'Ren, BillSt. John, Madeline2018-05-232018-05-232018-05-22http://hdl.handle.net/11603/10859These stories interweave various levels of reality, juggling fact and fantasy through the perspectives of various quirky and conventional characters of two fictional towns: Candle, a rural town with an economy based around a granite factory, and Watertown, a more developed and populated trade town located near a harbor. The stories occur over the course of several years, during which a young girl talks with a chicken, a woman who looks like a bird is concussed, and a man’s life is changed forever by a fish reincarnated as a woman.175 pagesen-USCollection may be protected under Title 17 of the U.S. Copyright Law. To obtain information or permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Goucher Special Collections & Archives at 410-337-6347 or email archives@goucher.edu.creative writingMagicshort storiesText