{"product_id":"2940016133430","title":"Brain Wrecks","description":"BRAIN WRECKS is a collection of short stories and short-short stories, ranging across a wild universe of imagination, dream, and startling reality. From the familiar landscapes of western New York to the alien brutality of a planet in a deadly struggle for survival, stopping along the way for detours into weird and wacky nightspots of unreality, this bundle of tales covers it all.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere you'll find short-short stories of no more than a page, and some longer stories that might qualify as novelettes or novellas. For a while I thought about grouping them by some theme or standard or locale. Then I gave up. I offer them in alphabetical order instead.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSatire lives here in various places. Remember that.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first nine are all very short. In the world of randomness, that seems unlikely when alphabetical order was used, but unlikely only works until it happens, which makes it unlikely no longer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe next five, from THE COBALT CYBER SEAS through HERE OUR STEPS FALTERED, are all regular short stories or longer forms.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThen there are three very-shorts, one full-length story, NIGHT BELLS, another very-short, then three full-length stories from PYRO through TARGHAST. This pattern looks more likely as random, doesn't it?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis seeming randomness continues with one very-short, two full-length stories, TRIZARK and TROUPE, a last very-short, and a final full-length story, WINTERSTATE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJust remember that when someone tells you that a pattern is random, they're probably just messing with you.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe story list:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eACCENT\u003cbr\u003eADRIFT ON THE MARE COMMUTATIO\u003cbr\u003eALCHEMY\u003cbr\u003eAPPEAL\u003cbr\u003e3.14159265358979323846264 and so on\u003cbr\u003eBRAND NAMES\u003cbr\u003eBROKEN CIRCLE\u003cbr\u003eTHE BUDDHA LECTURES ON COSMOLOGY\u003cbr\u003eCARBUNCLE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE COBALT CYBER SEAS\u003cbr\u003eDEADWINTER MOON\u003cbr\u003eFROM THE WALL\u003cbr\u003eGUIGNOL\u003cbr\u003eHERE OUR STEPS FALTERED\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLOVE DRINKS IN\u003cbr\u003eMETAMORPHOSE\u003cbr\u003eNEW WORLD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNIGHT BELLS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePIE AND WINGS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePYRO\u003cbr\u003eSPICE ON HOT STEEL\u003cbr\u003eTARGHAST, or NEDRILLO LEARNS THE ART OF IMPROVISATION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE WEEZO UNIVERSE TUNING DEVICE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTRIZARK\u003cbr\u003eTROUPE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE VISITORS ON THE FOURTH\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWINTERSTATE","brand":"Dana Paxson Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121300553968,"sku":"2940016133430","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940016133430_p0.jpg?v=1763629742","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940016133430","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}