The Shower Fixture Played the Blues and Other Stories

Dog-Adoption bureaucrats, psychotic deer, lonely magical creatures who just want to hang out and maybe eat your kids; the stories of CL Bledsoe are often strange and always entertaining. Whether they're summoning a demon to get out of having to go to work or trying to escape from Santa's labor camp, the characters in Bledsoe's stories weirdly relatable while living in unfamiliar worlds. These stories span Bledsoe's career from the beginning up until about 2:30 p.m., last Tuesday.