An Expression of Silence and Other Stories

An astronaut communicates with a planet-sized alien, but will she understand what it means to harbor a brain node? A woman cannot stop turning into a spider, yet this mysterious affliction guides her to a new understanding. A college student riding her bike through space stumbles upon a gigantic sunflower, which turns out to be a portal into a time loop. Alien archivists piece together a timeline which has been jumbled out of order. Journey thought fantastical houses with too many rooms, a restaurant which serves whatever item you request, infinite archives, a planet covered in sentient moss, and vibrant space gardens filled with enormous mermaids.

This stellar collection of twenty-four speculative stories will guide you through worlds of strange emotion, whimsical ideas, and innovative humor. Beth Goder's writing will pull you into wondrous and jarring worlds that ultimately remind you what it is to be human. Included are "Murder or a Duck," "Arachnomorphosis," "The House That Leapt Into Forever," and the AnLab-nominated novella "Murder on the Eris Express."