The Sea Beast takes a Lover
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A lovesick kraken slowly drags the object of its desire - a ship of sailers - into the sea; a group of cantankerous saints materialize in a well-appointed parlour, and must unravel the mystery of how they got there; ageing fathers are sunk to the bottom of the ocean in pressure-sealed crates in a time-honoured ritual.
Michael Andreasen's stories romp through the lunatic and surreal with a tender generous ease; there is a joyous absurdity to each premise. Just because a sister is born without a head doesn't mean her brother won't love and protect her; just because an adulterous tryst ends in alien abduction doesn't mean the man doesn't miss his wife.
An extremely funny, very weird, brilliantly constructed set of stories, from an exciting young writer.
Michael Andreasen
Michael Andreasen is a recent graduate of University of California, where he received the McDonald Harris Prize for Fiction. His story, The King's Teacup at Rest, was published by the New Yorker. He's working on his first novel.
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Reviews for The Sea Beast takes a Lover
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Contains: A handful of fantasy/ sci-fi/ speculative fiction short stories.
Genre(s): Short Story Collection
Summery: A mixed bag of weird, bizarre, strange (and whatever other synonym you can think of) short stories.
What I enjoyed about this story: A few I really enjoyed.
What I didn't enjoy about this story: Not the biggest fan of the odd content for the stories. I either found them boring or was indifferent to them. The weird factor was just not my thing.
Official rating: 3 stars