Ebook {Epub PDF} False Bingo: Stories by Jac Jemc

In Jac Jemc’s dislocating second story collection, False Bingo, we watch as sinister forces—some supernatural, some of this earth, some real and some not—work their ways into the .  · In Jac Jemc’s dislocating second story collection, False Bingo, we watch as sinister forces—some supernatural, some of this earth, some real and some not—work their ways into the mundanity of everyday life. False Bingo. MCD x FSG Originals, forthcoming October In Jac Jemc’s dislocating second story collection, False Bingo, we watch as sinister forces—some supernatural, some of this earth, some real and some not—work their ways into the mundanity of everyday life.

False Bingo. The following is an exclusive excerpt from the story "Strange Loop," from False Bingo, the new collection by Jac Jemc. John slit the squirrel down the belly. He pulled out the stuffed sausage of inner flesh. It was rare he saw blood leak onto the ­table, so precise ­were his shushing slides of the blade. In her second story collection, False Bingo, Jac Jemc delivers 20 compact, disquieting stories that are starkly realistic yet tinged with a sense of otherworldly menace Jemc's ability to build an undercurrent of threat in mundane situations is reminiscent of Shirley Jackson In all her writing, Jemc displays dexterity with characters and precision with words and sentences, creating small. The mundane becomes sinister in a disquieting story collection from the author of The Grip of It.. In Jac Jemc's dislocating second story collection, False Bingo, we watch as sinister forces―some supernatural, some of this earth, some real and some not―work their ways into the mundanity of everyday life. In "Strange Loop," an outcast attempting to escape an unnamed mistake spends his days.

“Her stories challenge the idea of what forms conflict and what forms a satisfying ending, or what constitutes satisfaction at all. And in that way, "False Bingo" is a collection that takes the kaleidoscopic concept of what human beings want and looks at it with total clarity.”-KPBS “Jac Jemc thrives in the world of ambiguity and unease.”. Octo. False bingo (n.): The dud epiphany, the premature eureka, the lightbulb that flashes once and shatters. It isn’t yet an idiom, but the Chicago writer Jac Jemc’s latest collection of stories makes a sustained case for the concept’s utility. Though most originally appeared in other publications, these 20 brief tales conduct a smoothly coordinated investigation of the human tendency toward blind spots and bad assumptions. False Bingo is a catchy title that seems to imply jumping to the wrong conclusions. And that is exactly what it feels like to read the stories in this wide-ranging, zany collection that somehow combines the otherworldliness of Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation, the menacing irony of Shirley Jackson and the cold feminist fury of Margaret Atwood. Love the book or not, there's no denying that Jemc has a gift for making you want to keep reading.