Publisher's Synopsis
Black Dandy is a quarterly literary journal dedicated to excellence in magic realism, surrealism, and the otherwise strange. Based in New Zealand, we're proud to feature top talent from around the world. Our premiere issue features 10 stories from today's most compelling writers. Relive 9/11 through the eyes of a chronic nail-biter, a Russian weightlifter, and a bureaucrat who once made brilliant but useless devices...Uncover the secrets of a spectral European village with a disenchanted traveler...Take a walk to the 1950s, where a young man mesmerizes a small American town with his unique artistic gifts...Join a woman as she recounts a peculiar love from her past. In a slowly sinking coastal town, a sheriff grapples with a Poodle murder, twins with bizarre qualities, and the fitness of his police force...After finishing your workout at the local gym, you realize you can't leave because the building is encased in impenetrable fat...A drifter tries to warn his community that a homeless man in their midst is a disaster waiting to happen...Her dead grandfather was a serial killer, but that's not going to stand between her and an attempt to escape destiny...On the day of a soldier's execution, those who knew him meet for drinks and slowly slide into a situation they can't explain...She's obsessed with the remarkable pleasures of a long-ago lover and she'll do whatever it takes to relive them.
