Dear friends of the unreal —
I am thrilled to share that I had my first book signing ever for my new chapbook Sex with Buildings that launched in May with the amazing Dancing Girl Press.
Here is a snippet from the collection….
Conceal the Evidence
My Barbies have no fingers and no hair, the first one said. I cut them off.
That’s nothing said the other. I made a voodoo doll of this boy I hated in 4th grade. But first I went to the library, I did the research and then I got two friends, and we collected the necessary materials – hair from his parka, blood from a Band-Aid, fingernail clippings I forget how, and we went into the teacher’s bathroom and stuck the doll. It didn’t work, but I remember the recipe just in case. You never know.
Don’t ever make HER mad said the first one.
I was sick said the second.
But you knew how to hide the truth, I said.
We agreed: that is what counts
(Copyright, Stephanie Barbe Hammer, 07/15/2012)
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Stephanie Barbé Hammer is a magical realist prose fiction writer, novelist, occasional essayist, and a committed, intermittent poet, as well as a passionate instructor of writing. A 7-time nominee for the Pushcart Prize she has published work in Hayden's Ferry, Pearl, CRATE, Rhapsoidia, NYCBigCityLit, the East Jasmine Review, Apeiron, Inlandia, Literary Alchemy and the Bellevue Literary Review among other places. She is the author the fabulist novel THE PUPPET TURNERS OF NARROW INTERIOR (Urban Farmhouse Press), a novelette, RESCUE PLAN (Bamboo Dart Press), a prose poem chapbook collection, SEX WITH BUILDINGS (dancing girl press), and a poetry collection, HOW FORMAL (Spout Hill Press).
Stephanie's new novel PRETEND PLUMBER is available for order from your favorite bookstore, and her poetry chapbook CITY SLICKER appeared in July 2022. Stay tuned for her novella, JOURNEY TO MERVEILLEUX CITY, coming out in 2023!
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