a collection by Chris Deal'Prose haikus, fiction bullets, one-sentences novels, two fingers of story neat, no chaser . . . I don't know what to call these, really. But I want more.' --Stephen Graham Jones, author of Demon Theory and Ledfeather 'These stories render emotion in shades of stark gray. Like sculptures, Deal subtracts from his Cienfuegos superfluous elements, leaving a base from which the reader is allowed to interpret, perhaps participate...