Secrets thicken in The Storm That Bears Your Name, providing spaces through which children slip, spaces in which the once-said or never-said still shiver. Will you know yourself in the new town? Will the branches bear your weight? Winner of the Cupboard Pamphlet’s Fourth-Ever Contest, The Storm That Bears Your Name cracks open the distance between what is, what was, and what will be as if to say, Maybe. I was dazzled by the ways these stories could unexpectedly pivot on a sentence and open into an entirely new angle of possibility. Every paragraph ended somewhere wildly different than its start, and revealed fresh views along the way that I’d never have guessed to predict. Throughout, I always felt like I was learning something—about the characters, yes, but these upside-down scenarios also act as the perfect lens to spin out a clear, focused picture of human nature. — Alissa Nutting I seriously dig this haunting book. It feels like grasping the hem of something large and moving and forever unknowable. It will leave you feeling like the body living inside this garment might be your own. — Sabrina Orah Mark