{"product_id":"the-molotov-cocktail-prize-winners-anthology-9780692546062","title":"The Molotov Cocktail: Prize Winners Anthology","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Josh Goller\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Accelerant Publishing\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Accelerant Publishing\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Anthologies (multiple authors)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExplosive flash fiction from the first year of quarterly contests at the \u003ci\u003eThe Molotov Cocktail\u003c\/i\u003e lit zine. This anthology includes the prize winners and honorable mentions in our Flash Monster, Flash Future, Flash Fool, and Flash Fury contests. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelected by \u003cb\u003eJosh Goller\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eMary Lenoir Bond\u003c\/b\u003e, the 40 bite-sized stories found within these pages are strange and surreal, dark and offbeat, bizarre and unsettling, with some wry humor to boot.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cb\u003eErica David\u003c\/b\u003e's Flash Monster winner, \"I, Homunculus,\" we read the first-person origin story of a creature born from a mandrake root under a gallows. In \u003cb\u003eSarena Ulibarri\u003c\/b\u003e's Flash Future winner, \"Natural Selection,\" the deer have taken over the neighborhood as humanity has succumbed to a horrific virus that turns people feral. Meanwhile, \"Our Little Ghost\" by \u003cb\u003eJT Gill\u003c\/b\u003e, winner of the Flash Fool contest, reflects upon an otherworldly child who appears in a boathouse. And the Flash Fury winner, \"Goodbye, Sunshine\" by \u003cb\u003eSylvia Heike\u003c\/b\u003e, shares the inner monologue of an insidious presence inside a yellow-obsessed mind.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eElsewhere, we have shadow monsters, alien babies, genetically-engineered giants, drugs that might make you disappear, time travel, highway snipers, van-driving cult leaders, fiery plane crashes, shamanistic butchers, fortress-building pigs, punchline-delivering grim reapers, macabre brothels, overprotective mothers, sinister fuzz, and much more. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn addition to contributors listed above, this anthology also includes work by Ian Shine, Jo Gatford, Barbara Leahy, Christopher Allen, Jeffrey Spinazzola, Marie Gethins, Puneet Dutt, Chris White, Chris Milam, Alex Cothren, David Novak, Anthony Nichols, Carlos Orozco, Colton Adrian, Tracy Garbutt, John Rickett, Stephanie Roman, Christina Villafaña Dalcher, Nicholas Lamb, Fred Senese, Melissa Monks, Lindsay Dick, Heidi Sterling, Joseph Grantham, Kyle Yadlowski, and Holly Collingwood.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Accelerant Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45500700950679,"sku":"9780692546062","price":1077.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780692546062.webp?v=1767158375","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-molotov-cocktail-prize-winners-anthology-9780692546062","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}