Container

By: Derek Fisher

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Paperback | 20 July 2024

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216 Pages

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17.78 x 11.43 x 1.25

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In sold out stadiums, top recording booths, sounds of ripping steel, snapped elevator cables, shattering feedback, eardrum surgery, masses devoted until death, a music landscape possessed by this singular, multi-platinum colossus of scar and bone; an infamous architect, who travels the world with her young son, overseeing constructions of her work, ignoring reports detailing the increasing death toll in her buildings; your misplaced talking toy turtle, cute immovable smile, a lost death-squad insurgent; shy teenage girl, strict parental control, model student, raised to be a killer; climate change has been solved; global warming boils the earth; desert wastelands surrounding scorched ghost towns; Manhattan mega-condos turned into luxury orgy sanctuaries, above crowded human tunnels of infested waste, amid apocalyptic floods, drowning what's left of the city; my last shift, in the world's best restaurant, my curious eyes, my lacerated arm, my exposed cluster of wires, my new insides.

These are the inhabitants and shadows, the glittering and decaying worlds of Container. 15 stories.

Industry Reviews

"I imagine Derek Fisher's brain as a blackened tributary, fractured, seeping out in each direction, where the sacred, mundane, absurd, and horrific each find themselves a stream. His collection defies categorization, except that most every story ends in gnawing uncertainty."

- Christopher Zeischegg, author of The Magician

"With stories ranging from lighthearted gore to the depths of despair, Derek Fisher's new collection establishes his skill with a sentence. As he did in Night Life, Derek continues to evoke a brooding emotional atmosphere that here appears more vulnerable, a little closer to the heart. I will continue to follow his work as long as he continues to grace us with it."

- Charlene Elsby, author of The Devil Thinks I'm Pretty and Violent Faculties

"Container is that secret little drawer in the garage where your dad keeps the rat poison, a blowtorch, his rusty switchblade, and some expired pills with the label peeled off. Except now there's a rabid opossum birthing babies in there too. And your dad isn't around to see it because he's wanted for manslaughter."

- Claire Hopple, author of ECHO CHAMBER

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