Hoopty Time Machines
fairy tales for grown ups

Acknowledgments

"An American Dream" originally appeared in Necessary Fiction, October 2012.

"The Atheist of Dekalb Street" originally appeared in wigleaf, March 2013.

"Belly of the Whale" originally appeared in Fractured West, Spring 2014.

"The Bigfoot Hunter" originally appeared in Urban Fantasist, June 2015.

"Blog of the Last Man on Earth" originally appeared in Crack the Spine, June 2014.

"The Changeling" originally appeared in East Coast Literary Review, January 2015.

"Conestoga Wagon" originally appeared in DOGZPLOT, Spring 2013.

"The Dinner Party" originally appeared in Literary Orphans, May 2014.

"The Fibonacci Forest" originally appeared in Vine Leaves Literary Journal, January 2015.

"Fortress of Solitude" originally appeared in Apocrypha and Abstractions, February 2013.

"The Garden" originally appeared in Niteblade, December 2012.

"Godzilla Reading Haiku" originally appeared in Jersey Devil Press, February 2013.

"Goldilocks and the Three Boys" originally appeared in Grey Sparrow Journal, Spring 2013.

"Hoopty Time Machine" originally appeared in The Binnacle, Winter 2013.

"The 100th Floor" originally appeared in Vine Leaves Literary Journal, January 2015.

"Indestructible" originally appeared in Passages North, Spring 2016.

"The Interview" originally appeared in The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review, June 2013.

"Intrusion" originally appeared in Cease, Cows, Spring 2016.

"The Little Mermaid" originally appeared in Blue Monday Review, May 2015.

"Monster" originally appeared in The Electronic Encyclopedia of Experimental Literature, Spring 2016.

"Poseidon's Net" originally appeared in Rose & Thorn Journal, Spring 2013.

"Rapunzel's Tangles" originally appeared in Necessary Fiction, April 2015.

"Renewal" originally appeared in Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine, December 2013.

"Sacramento" originally appeared in White Knuckle Press, April 2015.

"Shiva the Destroyer" originally appeared in In Between Altered States, September 2012.

"Snakes" originally appeared in MicroHorror, October 2012.

"Social Media" originally appeared in Nailed, August 2015.

"Stella of the Angels" originally appeared in Bartleby Snopes, November 2012.

"Stolen" originally appeared in Hobart, Summer 2016.

"Sugar and Stones" originally appeared in Bewildering Stories, October 2012.

"The Trolls" originally appeared in The Wild Hunt, Spring 2016.

"Voodoo" originally appeared in A cappella Zoo, Fall 2013.

"The Wallpaper" originally appeared in Blue Monday Review, May 2015.

"The Well" originally appeared in Atticus Review, August 2014.

"When Ulysses Returned to Ithaca" originally appeared in Grey Sparrow Journal, October 2014.

 

This book wouldn't be possible without the love and support (and editing) of Bree Barton, who always knows exactly what to say to get me writing my next story.

Unprinted but Still-Sincere Acknowledgments

Thanks to Jerry DeWan for cultivating my weird curiosity: this book owes much to you and your pile of American Heritage magazines. Thanks to Elaine DeWan for showing me that teaching and caring are both art forms worth mastering. Thanks to both of you for reading to me when I was a kid, and for making our monthly trips to the bookstore so much fun. Thanks also for never telling me I'm a fool for this life I live, even though I often think it myself.

Thanks to Jennifer DeWan for being my first real friend.

Thanks to Dan Cafaro and Atticus Books for saying yes to this book—the first time and many times since.

Thanks to Yevgenia Nayberg for sharing your weird whimsy with mine.

Thanks to Aimee Bender for answering that fan letter 20 years ago and being so continuously generous ever since.

Thanks to Kevin Brockmeier, who loves books more than anyone I know, for responding so lovingly to mine.

Thanks to Ben Loory for showing me that a book doesn't have to be like all the other books.

Thanks to Ramona Ausubel, who I don't know well but whom I've only known to be giving and kind.

Thanks to Helen McClory, a kindred spirit in a faraway land. We'll be together when the changelings are called home.

Thanks to Nathan Ballingrud for reading my book, understanding its intentions so clearly, and describing them so graciously.

Thanks to Sharma Shields, the best friend I've never met.

Thanks to John Madera for blessing this book with its first unsolicited mana from Heaven.

Thanks to Skylight Books, my favorite bookstore, for agreeing to host our book launch.

Thanks to the teachers and colleagues, too numerous to name, who helped me with these stories and all the experiments that preceded them.

Thanks to my students for all your trust. I learn more from you than you know.

Thanks to Bree Barton for being an unfailing partner in all things, and for patiently teaching me to try to be one too. Thanks for completely understanding me and loving me anyway.

Thanks to everyone who has already voiced support of this book and thanks to everyone who plans to read it.