The Octopus Rises Product Form:Hardback Taken as a whole

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The Octopus Rises Product Form:Hardback Taken as a wholeThis is a collection of literary prose short fictionstories about the end of Bert and Ernie's relationship, about robot love, a town who shares a heart, and much morefrom an up and coming Seattle author. Man, I had so many stab wounds, it was crazy. There I was at the conference center, and I hadn't even adequately prepared my presentation. And so begins "Bleeding Man and Wounded Deer," one of the stories in this collection of literary short fiction