John Elizabeth Stintzi

A boisterous collection of surreal, darkly humourous short stories that will delight fans of George Saunders and Kelly Link. In the surreal, often precarious realities of Bad Houses, a doctor discovers a double-edged cure for the Ebola virus, a college student loses a different body part each time they return home for the summer, Midas's hairdresser strives to keep his...

One morning, a jogger in Central Park notices a mass of stone in the centre of the reservoir, which, three weeks later, will have grown into an active stratovolcano nearly two and a half miles tall. This inexplicable event appears to coincide with an escalation of strange phenomena occurring around the world. My Volcano is a pre-apocalyptic vision following a...