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Matt Bell is the author of How They Were Found, forthcoming from Keyhole Press in October 2010. His fiction appears in literary magazines such as Conjunctions, Hayden's Ferry Review, Willow Springs, Unsaid, and American Short Fiction, and has been selected for inclusion in Best American Mystery Stories 2010 and Best American Fantasy 2. He is also the editor of The Collagist. For more information, click here.

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How They Were Found
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Tuesday
22Dec2009

She clomped about on her adult-sized knee and the baby leg, wielding an axe, lurching

By day, he waited patiently for them to find him and kill him. He was sure it was only a matter of time until they found him, although he had only the vaguest sense of who they were: a dark figure in a light coat, or perhaps a light figure in a dark coat, or perhaps somehow both at once. His memory seemed mostly to have deserted him, if he ever had one at all. He remembered a trip through the woods, his missing hand aching, his stump wrapped in an old shirt, a gash open on his forehead. Before that, he wasn't certain what he remembered. The dream of the woman with a baby leg might be a memory but maybe it was just a dream. The cabin was perhaps his cabin or perhaps just a cabin he had stumpled upon or perhaps part of a third undefined category, he couldn't say.

--Baby Leg by Brian Evenson (Tyrant Books)

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Reader Comments (5)

man I love this book, just finished it last night.

hurray for the arrival of more evenson and the first new york tyrant book...

December 22, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterJ. A. Tyler

Glad we were reading it together! I started it the other day, but only made it through half, so i started it over again last night and read it cover-to-cover.

It's hard to believe how much Evenson put out this year--LAST DAYS, FUGUE STATE, BABY LEG. Anything else? I'm hoping for six or seven titles in 2010.

December 22, 2009 | Registered CommenterMatt Bell

poets open lakes

December 22, 2009 | Unregistered Commenterbill

oh, just got it in the mail, and am looking forward to it!

December 23, 2009 | Unregistered Commenterbl pawelek

Great, bl! I'm looking forward to hearing what you think of it.

December 23, 2009 | Registered CommenterMatt Bell

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