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Today’s story comes from Animals In Peril: Stories by Ryan Kenealy, published by Curbside Splendor. A long-awaited debut collection of stories from an author who knows just how to hit the heart, explores our relationships with animals, other people, and ourselves. These Midwestern stories are at times hilarious and melancholic, reflecting the best and worst of who we are through thrombotic shih tzus, decapitated skunks, and rudderless humans. Through stories that are offbeat, haunting, and gut-wrenching, Ryan Kenealy shows us how we project ourselves and our needs onto the animal kingdom.
Today’s story comes from the 
Today’s story comes from Look Who’s Morphing by Asian Australian writer Tom Cho, published by Arsenal Pulp Press. Look Who’s Morphing is a funny, fantastical, often outlandish collection of stories firmly grounded in popular culture. Often with his family, the book’s central character undergoes a series of startling physical transformations, shape-shifting through figures drawn from film and television, music and books, porn flicks and comics. He is Godzilla, a Muppet, a gay white male stud, and Whitney Houston’s bodyguard; the Fonz, a robot, the von Trapp family’s caretaker, a Ford Bronco 4×4—and in the book’s lavish climax, a one-hundred-foot-tall guitar-wielding rock star performing for an adoring troupe of fans in Tokyo.
