Uncommon Miracles

By Julie C. Day

2018

First Published

4.22

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220

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6H43M

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A grieving man travels through time via car crash. A family of matriarchs collects recipes for the dead. A woman gains an unexpected child in the midst of a bunny apocalypse. An outcast finds work in a magical slaughterhouse. Julie C. Day’s debut collection is rife with dark and twisted tales made beautiful by her gorgeous prose and wonderfully idiosyncratic imagination. Melding aspects of Southern Gothic and fabulism, and utilizing the author’s own scientific background, Day’s carefully rendered settings are both delightful and unexpected. Whether set in a uniquely altered version of Florida’s Space Coast or a haunted island off the coast of Maine, each story in this collection carries its own brand of meticulous and captivating weirdness. Yet in the end, it is the desperation of the characters that drives these stories forward and their wild obsessions that carry them through to the end. It is Day’s clear-eyed compassion for the dark recesses of the human heart and her dream-like vision of the physical world that make this collection a standout.

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Author

Julie C. Day

Author · 3 books

Julie C. Day's novella THE RAMPANT (Aqueduct Press) is a 2020 Lambda Literary Award finalist. Her genre-bending debut collection, UNCOMMON MIRACLES (PS Publishing, 2018), contains some of her most beloved work. She’s also the Editor-in-Chief of the charity anthology WEIRD DREAM SOCIETY (Reckoning Press, 2020) and the forthcoming DREAMS FOR A BROKEN WORLD (2022). Julie is currently working on the mosaic novel STORIES OF DRIESCH (Vernacular Books). She’s published over forty stories in magazines such as Interzone, Split Lip Magazine, Black Static, Podcastle and the Cincinnati Review. John Crowley describes her fiction as "strongly strange, whether happening in a sort of now in this country or in a weirdly altered past. These stories seem to be what the term American Gothic was meant for." Some of her favorite things include loose teas, standing desks and the tricolored prevost's squirrel.