The 2022 Anthology
Poe & Christie & Hughes, & Milne....
Literary taxidermists take the first and last lines of a piece of writing (often a novel, but sometimes a short story or poem) and then use those lines as the beginning and ending of a new, wholly-original work. The idea originated in a book of short stories called The Gymnasium by Mark Malamud, "re-stuffing" what goes in-between the opening and closing lines of classic works by Milan Kundera, Virginia Woolf, Ian Fleming, and others. The Literary Taxidermy Writing Competition has tasked writers with stitching up the work of Edgar Allan Poe, Agatha Christie, Langston Hughes, A. A. Milne, Katherine Mansfield, Aldous Huxley, Toni Morrison, Lewis Carroll, Dashiell Hammett, Ray Bradbury, and Dorothy Parker.
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From a chance encounter to a planned revenge, from a skeptical bride to a gun-toting NannyBot, from a lovesick angel to a text-messaging devil, from a homeless cat to a misunderstood hen—you've never read collections like these!
Poe & Christie & Hughes, & Milne....
They remind me somehow....
124 was spireful....
A squat grey building....
Exercises in Literary Taxidermy
It's all pretty
Which do you think it was?
Five, ten, fifteen....
When we reach the city...
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