Little Feasts

$14.99

Following her successes from All the Ghosts We’ve Always Had, critically-acclaimed flash fiction writer, Jules Archer, returns to the dinner table with Little Feasts, her debut short story collection. The stories are a table-long buffet of femininity, a lying tree, childhood innocence, toxic masculinity, and a 20-pound cast-iron skillet. Works within have been featured in Five:2:One,SmokeLong Quarterly, Maudlin House, PANK, and more.

“Drive me away on your motorcycle, black like the night when it’s warm, and spin us onto the freeway. Above the engine roar, you’ll ask if I remembered my dress. When the sun rises, we’ll reach Reno. There, you’ll dance me over dizzying casino carpet because you have brought the rings and I’ve left behind coffee in the pot and there is no way the world can get us now. When we’re pronounced, you take my face in your hands, kiss me like I’m a souvenir, and I’ll close my eyes, think: Good lord in heaven, I hope this baby’s yours.”

ISBN-13: 978-1-7345158-0-0

84pp.

Cover design and art by Carolyn Brandt

Following her successes from All the Ghosts We’ve Always Had, critically-acclaimed flash fiction writer, Jules Archer, returns to the dinner table with Little Feasts, her debut short story collection. The stories are a table-long buffet of femininity, a lying tree, childhood innocence, toxic masculinity, and a 20-pound cast-iron skillet. Works within have been featured in Five:2:One,SmokeLong Quarterly, Maudlin House, PANK, and more.

“Drive me away on your motorcycle, black like the night when it’s warm, and spin us onto the freeway. Above the engine roar, you’ll ask if I remembered my dress. When the sun rises, we’ll reach Reno. There, you’ll dance me over dizzying casino carpet because you have brought the rings and I’ve left behind coffee in the pot and there is no way the world can get us now. When we’re pronounced, you take my face in your hands, kiss me like I’m a souvenir, and I’ll close my eyes, think: Good lord in heaven, I hope this baby’s yours.”

ISBN-13: 978-1-7345158-0-0

84pp.

Cover design and art by Carolyn Brandt

About the Author

Jules Archer is the author of the chapbook, All the Ghosts We've Always Had (Thirty West Publishing, 2018) and the short story collection, Little Feasts (Thirty West Publishing, 2020). Her writing has appeared in various journals, including SmokeLong Quarterly, Pank, Maudlin House, and elsewhere. She lives in Arizona and looks for monsters in strange places.

Reviews

“There are writers who have the gift of immediately engaging their readers with the sure knowledge that what will follow will be unlike anything else they've read. Jules Archer is one such writer. In Little Feasts, we are invited to a table overflowing with bold, sometimes bizarre, often tender, and deliciously original stories. This work is reminiscent of Miranda July with a dash of Aimee Bender, but make no mistake, it's 100% Jules Archer, a writer of rare verve, compassion, and wit. Indulge, lucky readers!”

—Kathy Fish, author of Together We Can Bury It & Wild Life

“These are all stories of hunger: raging, sneaking, all-consuming. Jules Archer writes characters that understand that hunger and dive into it, in tantalizing and hard-to-put-down stories. Sometimes grotesque, sometimes heartbreaking, always absolutely human in the writing's insatiable desire to find the truth.”

—Chloe N. Clark, Author of Your Strange Fortune and Collective Gravities

“Fragility, anxiety, and vulnerability are all so freshly flushed out into the open in Jules Archer's full collection of stories, Little Feasts. With strong word choices that build into rhythmic, brilliant sentences and paragraphs, this collection is resilient and has a defiant strength within each moment. Each story is spring-loaded and ready for trouble! Hope you anticipate an extravaganza--you'll feel so satiated while tasting this main course, you'll want to keep reading for dessert!”

—Robert Vaughan, author of FUNHOUSE & Editor-in-chief of Bending Genres, LLC.