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Karen Heuler
Book List in Order: 26 titles
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The Other Door Other Door Other Door: Stories Stories Stories
- Oct-1995
- / General Fiction
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Marvelously crafted, slyly sidestepping the reader's expectations, the characters in Karen Heuler's "The Other Door" respond to the unexpected events in their lives, accepting and then rising to the challenges, no matter how strange. For them, rea...
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The Soft Room
- Jan-2004
- / Literary
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Fiction. Karen Heuler's first novel, THE SOFT ROOM, is the tale of Abby and Meg, nearly identical twins, differentiated by the rare disease that has rendered Meg impervious to physical pain. When hit with hard economic times by their father's cancer,...
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Journey to Bom Goody
- Jan-2006
- / General Fiction
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A retired electronics salesman decides to journey up the Amazon River to conduct a private social experiment by dropping off VCRs, cassette tapes, and portable generators to increasingly isolated natives. Also a widower, he meets an attractive ethnob...
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The Made-Up Man
- Dec-2011
- / General Fiction
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Fiction. LGBT Studies. Self-pity will only get you so far. When Alyson Salky finds that her lover is having an affair with her best friend -- and he takes the dog with him when he moves out -- and a man with worse credentials is hired over her at wor...
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Inner City
- Feb-2013
- / Fantasy
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Heuler’s stories dart out at what the world is doing and centre on how the individual copes with it. Anything is possible: people breed dogs with humans to create a servant class; beneath one great city lies another city, running it surreptitiou...
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Glorious Plague
- Feb-2014
- / Urban Fantasy
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Hallie is missing -- and so are thousands of others. Everywhere people are singing -- climbing to the rooftops, to the bridges, to lamp post and road sign, steeple and water tower, singing gloriously, triumphantly, tirelessly -- and dying. Hallie’s...
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After Images
- May-2014
- / General Fiction
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A reporter gets a little crazy, and gets warned about it. From O. Henry Award-winner Karen Heuler's Inner City, this short story is one of a set of fifteen compelling works of strange and surreal beauty....
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Creating Cow
- May-2014
- / General Fiction
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Frankenstein's monster--but with a little girl and a cow. From O. Henry Award-winner Karen Heuler's Inner City, this short story is one of a set of fifteen compelling works of strange and surreal beauty....
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The Difficulties of Evolution
- May-2014
- / General Fiction
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Well, everyone changes as they grow. From O. Henry Award-winner Karen Heuler's Inner City, this short story is one of a set of fifteen compelling works of strange and surreal beauty....
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Down on the Farm
- May-2014
- / General Fiction
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A human-dog hybrid is a commercial success but not exactly a NICE thing. From O. Henry Award-winner Karen Heuler's Inner City, this short story is one of a set of fifteen compelling works of strange and surreal beauty....
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The Escape Artist
- May-2014
- / General Fiction
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A high-wire walker encounters an angel. From O. Henry Award-winner Karen Heuler's Inner City, this short story is one of a set of fifteen compelling works of strange and surreal beauty....
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The Great Spin
- May-2014
- / General Fiction
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The Rapture is coming, they say. From O. Henry Award-winner Karen Heuler's Inner City, this short story is one of a set of fifteen compelling works of strange and surreal beauty....
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How Lightly He Stepped in the Air
- May-2014
- / General Fiction
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A man has a little trouble getting down to earth. From O. Henry Award-winner Karen Heuler's Inner City, this short story is one of a set of fifteen compelling works of strange and surreal beauty....
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Landscape, with Fish
- May-2014
- / General Fiction
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What? Fish in the trees? Muttering birds? Should we be worried? From O. Henry Award-winner Karen Heuler's Inner City, this short story is one of a set of fifteen compelling works of strange and surreal beauty....
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The Large People
- May-2014
- / General Fiction
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Who are these people growing out of the soil and what do they have in mind? From O. Henry Award-winner Karen Heuler's Inner City, this short story is one of a set of fifteen compelling works of strange and surreal beauty....
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Thick Water
- May-2014
- / General Fiction
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Far from home, and the crewmates are acting strange. From O. Henry Award-winner Karen Heuler's Inner City, this short story is one of a set of fifteen compelling works of strange and surreal beauty....
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Other Places
- Aug-2016
- / Science Fiction
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Life unfolds in strange ways. You may encounter people from your past living in your former apartments, or realize you have a penis as you engage in war-dreams, or find a planet filled with ghosts that look exactly like the ghosts back home. Is it po...
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In Search of Lost Time
- Jul-2017
- / Science Fiction
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After beginning chemo for a rare cancer, Hildy discovers an extraordinary talent -- the ability to see and take other people’s time. She also discovers there’s an underground market for quality time. After all, who has enough time? The dying, esp...
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The Splendid City
- Jun-2022
- / Fantasy
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A genre-blending story of modern witchcraft, a police state and WTF characters, for fans of Alice Hoffman and Madeline Miller.--In the state of Liberty, water is rationed at alarming prices, free speech is hardly without a cost, and Texas has just de...
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Forgetting
- Aug-2022
- / General Fiction
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These literary short stories deal with the subject of dementia--what the world looks like from the outside and inside: how people cope, try to manage, try to imagine, try to adjust. We try to reason with the unreasonable, try to love the unloveable, ...
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A Slice of the Dark and Other Stories
- Nov-2022
- / Fantasy
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If you got a mysterious box that said, Do Not Open, would you open it? If your fingers revolted and wanted a different job, would you agree? If you came from a race of giants, or thought about becoming Death's lover, or couldn't get rid of a l...
