Ursula Pflug

• Nov-2001
• / Fantasy
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Sometimes he swam on his back and then the stars would make pinholes in his eyes, sinking, sinking until they came to rest in the darkness of his brain, sleeping reflections to their brothers across the void of space. Then they were in his mind, ...

• Jun-2008
• / Fantasy
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Reality burns away in this short story collection, revealing captivating, fantastical elements characteristic of Ursula Pflug. In this first collection of her extraordinary stories, worlds unfold like waking dreams where what was forgotten is rememb...

• Sep-2013
• / Historical
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The Alphabet Stones is about three families, one of them supernatural, and how they intertwine-with each other and with the land, a moody eastern Ontario of communes, music festivals and cedar swamps; stony farms and muddy rivers. This is a story abo...

• Jul-2014
• / General Fiction
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"""We are reading our way out of sadness."" So writes Linda Rogers in her fine poem, ""Paper Stairs."" And as our relationship with home and family is a complicated and varied one, Ursula Pflug's Hidden Brook Press anthology They Have to Take You In,...

• Sep-2014
• / General Fiction
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Fiction. MOTION SICKNESS is a flash novel consisting of 55 chapters of exactly 500 words, each accompanied by a scratchboard illustration, that follows one young woman's misadventures in the worlds of employment, friendship, dating, birth control and...

• May-2017
• / General Fiction
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Seventeen-year-old Camden splits her time between her father, a minor rock star, and her mom, a scruffy “hardware geek” who designs and implements temporary and sustainable power systems and satellite linkups for off-grid music and art festivals,...

• Apr-2018
• / Fantasy
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On nice days the witch Sandrine, a wife and mother of two (or is it three?) canoes along the Stream of Consciousness to the outskirts of town where her friend Vienna lives on the edge of a swamp. At Hartwood portals litter the paths, big as dinner...

• Jun-2020
• / General Fiction
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In these stories seers and vagabonds, addicts, and gardeners succeed and sometimes fail at creating new kinds of community against apocalyptic backdrops. They build gardens in the ruins, transport seeds and songs from one world to another and from dr...