Summer There, Summer Not by V N Garmon

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Summer There, Summer Not by V N Garmon is a collection of micro-fictions, by turns absurd, funny and heartbreaking. Garmon conjures up worlds full of precarity, knife-sharp images,  and endings that kick you in the teeth and rifle through your wallet.

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I went sixteen years without sneezing. I suppose I was too nervous. Every time I felt the urge, I shut the sun out of my eyes and waited for it to pass over and through me. A slow pressure filled the hollows of my face, and I collapsed my bones to accommodate it.

— I Went Sixteen Years Without Sneezing

Summer There, Summer Not by V N Garmon is a collection of micro-fictions, by turns absurd, funny and heartbreaking. Garmon conjures up worlds full of precarity, knife-sharp images,  and endings that kick you in the teeth and rifle through your wallet.

Summer There, Summer Not is a limited-run microchapbook hand made, typeset and designed by The Braag. It is printed on 80gsm ivory paper with a 270gsm linen embossed cover and 90gsm vellum style endpapers.

V N Garmon is an Atlanta-born auto parts dealer and author, with a penchant for soul-crushing micro-fiction and a passion for soup. V never really expected to get this far. Their work has appeared in Citywide Lunch, Scaffold Lit, The Gorko Gazette, and others.