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"Max Talley is both satirist and fantasist. His stories are kaleidoscopic in their variety. He's a literary acrobat with a wondrous bag of tricks. Give yourself over to a rising star in the short story form." Monte Schulz - Metropolis, NaughtyMax Talley's, When The Night Breathes Electric, features eighteen stories that range from the fantastical to crime fiction to haunted fables to science fiction. Tales of living couches and disembodied hands haunting medicine cabinets, to a future where technology-damaged people have territorial disputes with synthetic humans. From noir crime where the evildoers are not aware they are the criminals, to humorous takes on a has-been musician trying to strike it rich by selling a rock star's million-dollar guitar, and a woman dating someone to gain access to their water filter. Talley also provides psychological horror in a European village that gives visitors everything they desire, but at a steep price. These scenarios are inhabited by characters trying to navigate through a weird and often dangerous world. When The Night Breathes Electric collects Talley's best genre fiction from 2015 to the present. Talley's stories show the diverse influences ofFranz Kafka, Aimee Bender, and Kurt Vonnegut Jr., as well as series like Black Mirror and The Twilight Zone."The short story form has been written off by many as much ado about nothing. Max Talley's When the Night Breathes Electric should serve as the perfect rejoinder to this criticism, as every story collected here is as substantive as it is entertaining. These are short stories written right." Gar Anthony Haywood - In Things Unseen, Cemetery Road"Max Talley's When The Night Breathes Electric takes you into a labyrinth of strange characters enmeshed in even stranger situations. Talley's word craft shines through in this collection, punctuated with a sampling of his own eclectic paintings." Matthew Pallamary - The Small Dark Room of the Soul, Land Without EvilMax Talley was born in New York City and lives in Santa Barbara. His writing has appeared in literary journals, including Vol.1 Brooklyn, Atticus Review, Santa Fe Literary Review, Litro, and The Saturday Evening Post. He won the 2021 best fiction contest in Jerry Jazz Musician for "Celestial Vagabonds," later nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Talley's first novel, Yesterday We Forget Tomorrow, was published in 2014, his curated anthology, Delirium Corridor, appeared in 2020, and his short story collection, My Secret Place, was published in 2022 by Main Street Rag Books. www.maxdevoetalley.com

Flash Fiction writing legend Tommy Dean called this debut collection "wickedly fun, deeply cutting, and as creepy as a funhouse mirror." Meet award-winning author M. M. De Voe in a collection of dark, challenging stories that represent some of her best writing in short fiction from 2005 to the present. Part of Borda Books' series of BOLD VOICES IN FICTION, in this exciting debut anthology, DeVoe juggles literary fiction with fables, science fiction with horror, pagan satire with the fantastical. What shines through in these quirky tales is intelligence and daring. What is real and what is unreal?Terese Svoboda, author of Dog on Fire, says, "Milda De Voe gives you femme Kafka in A Flash of Darkness - but American style: 'with nosies and lights that simulate the beautiful side of violence.' The stories cruise the scene with a chess-playing vicious granny and a Svetlana lounging against a furry elk, 'calling to mind every vodka ad young American Jim had ever taped to a dorm room ceiling,' One swain can't hold his date's hand ; though she has left it on the table: a treat between beers.' De Voe's especially brilliant on family life, and ends the book with a quirky story about a husband and what else? Horror."Certain to appeal to fans of Black Mirror, Twilight Zone, and Kelly Link, the stories in A Flash of Darkness "dance across the page" and engage dark humor, satire, and plenty of provocative narratives. The cast of characters is unforgettable."M. M. De Voe's collection, A Flash of Darkness, showcases deviously decadent morsels in the vein of Black Mirror. Despair, longing, and regret linger in these unnerving, provocative stories." -Amy Grech, horror authorM. M. De Voe's odd, dark stories represent some of her best stories from 2005 to the present. De Voe juggles literary fiction with fables, science fiction with horror, pagan satire with the fantastical. But what shines through is intelligence and daring. The ability to write from the point of view of a variety of narrators-some worthy, even heroic, others flawed to the extreme. De Voe leaves you wondering, what is real and what is unreal? Who are the reliable narrators and who are inglorious charlatans?Dive in to the haunted atmosphere of "Shutter," as we linger on the outskirts of horror past or horror-to-be. "Tastemakers" satirizes a modern obsession with life as performance art. "The Mayor of Flashback" is pure literary fiction that intertwines memories of 9/11 in Manhattan, Russian escapades, and the sometimes elastic bonds of marriage. "Empty" takes us into a corporate Twilight Zone, while "Cake" is a frightening peek into a domestic world, where keeping an eye on the children may not necessarily be for their safety. Toward the end, "A Rose" delivers a knockout punch of shifting fables and narrators that shows in a single story what this author's imagination can accomplish.M. M. De Voe is an internationally published fictionista who once danced for the Pope and later ran away with a group of jugglers. Her writing has won over twenty awards. Columbia University Writing Fellow, MFA under Michael Cunningham and Matthew Sharpe. Founder of the literary nonprofit Pen Parentis, a process described in her memoir/productivity guidebook for writers who are parents, Book & Baby. Inaugural member of the Lithuanian Writers of the Diaspora Forum. She lives in Manhattan.