Chronicles ordinary people achieving vivid extrasensory perception while under extreme pain. The stories tumble into a universe of the jaded and the hopeful, in which men and women burdened with unwieldy and undesirable superhuman abilities are nonetheless resilient in subtle and startling ways.
Venita Blackburn is an English instructor at Arizona State University. Her¿stories have appeared in numerous publications, including¿American Short Fiction, Faultline, the Georgia Review, and SmokeLong Quarterly.¿She was awarded a Bread Loaf fellowship and a Pushcart Prize nomination in 2014.