So Bravely Vegetative (978-80982955819)
So Bravely Vegetative is the third prize-winning collection of short fiction from the co-editor of Visiting Bob: Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of Bob Dylan (2018), the co-editor of ten editions of American Fiction: The Best Unpublished Short Stories by Emerging Writers (1988-1999), and the author of Clouds Are the Mountains of the World, the newly-published dystopian novel-in-stories receiving wide praise.
"Alan Davis writes with a poet's sense of language, lyricism, and imagination. The range in these stories is nothing short of amazing." - Clint McCown
"There is magic in a world that still somehow seems devoid of magic." - Publishers Weekly
"Moving easily between blue-collar types and Social Register summer people, New Age dancers and Old World immigrants, underground poets and Elvis freaks, Davis demonstrates an impressive range in this collection. - Kirkus Reviews
These 25 stories, some flash fictions, first appeared in The Sun, Facing the Change: Personal Encounters with Global Warming, Consequence: A Literary Magazine Addressing War in the 21st Century, Apocalypse, Mental Shoes, Review Americana, and elsewhere.