Garrett Ashley has created a panorama of tales with Periphylla and Other Deep Ocean Attractions. This is a striking collection that shifts between worlds, from the creatures that inhabit the land and sea, to the two-legged humans who walk around troubled and confused, fighting to make sense of it all. These stories are a reminder that there is much beauty, and pain, in all creation. -Michael Farris Smith, author of Salvage This World and Desperation Road

A fever-hot exhalation of wonder. In these stories, aquariums hold leviathans, amoeba people burst through fake human skins, bruises ache from past lives, and the dead return as pigs. Heady, blistering, and tender as a wound. -Micah Dean Hicks, author of Break the Bodies, Haunt the Bones