Brain Frieze
‘Barnaby Goes Home’ and 20 more stories of humor, mystery, sci-fi, and the mind
Brain Frieze
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Brain Frieze: ‘Barnaby Goes Home’ and 20 more stories of humor, mystery, sci-fi, and the mind
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Discover diverse worlds of imagination and surprise in these
twenty-one new short stories from the author of "The Rules" and
"Cave Paintings." Allen Cobb's best recent short fiction explores
the busy characters of New York City, the mysteries of life and
death, voodoo in New Orleans, an aging motorcycle and its
boomer owner, an extraordinary Doberman, mysterious sleep
disturbances, and a short but sympathetic interview with a zombie.
Cobb's writing style is compelling and literate, and he manages to
make the trivial or absurd unexpectedly fascinating, while handling
complex or abstract ideas (life, death, religion, memory) with ease
and clarity. The collection is wonderfully varied, from extremely
short (especially the 11 tiny stories in "Writing in Restaurants") to
the grand entanglements of "16 Degrees of Correlation." Every
story takes the reader someplace new and surprising, yet they all
share an underlying insight into the mysterious and indescribable
realms of the mind.