And Yet It Moves

An engaging collection that takes on the love and loneliness lurking in the bright lights and shadowed corners of the everyday.

The ever-present, everyday magic in Stalcup's debut collection overlays the mundane world like mist and blurs the lines between the prosaic and the fantastic, in stories that examine life and loss. . . Stalcup's fabulist prose-poetry takes readers on tours of today's dreams and Nikola Tesla's memories, her writing surreal but solid enough for the reader to lean against.

In Erin Stalcup's And Yet It Moves, science, physics, and electricity (the reliably immutable phenomena that connect our universe) are the background for short stories of startling human disconnection and alienation . . . The beauty in each story is that, though alienation has become the default in each character's life, the desire to connect is ever present, like a beating heart, no matter how bruised.

Often, Stalcup succeeds at making those invisible visible . . . by reminding readers of the inherent humanity in persons, objects, places, animals, or-yes-natural phenomena. . . . Again and again, these stories show the imperfection of human connection, that invisible and yet visible forces at work in our lives.