{"product_id":"9780982530177","title":"Fast Machine","description":"\u003cbr\u003eFiction. The stories in FAST MACHINE come in three sizes: flash, regular, and too-long-for-journal-publication. Some were previously published. Some are brand-spanking new. The opening story, \"State Liquor,\" concerns a twenty-five-year-old woman and her eighteen-year-old husband trying to buy alcohol on their way to their strip mall jobs, the afternoon of their wedding. In \"Fistful,\" a pregnant teenager gets revenge on the young man who both impregnated and beat her, before leaving town with another man. In \"Habitrail,\" a woman returns home after the death of her father, to find her husband in communication with the television set and a god he calls Chaos, rather than her. There are over ninety stories in this collection. Repeated themes include: driving, smoking, teenagers, drinking, escape, the Midwest, masturbation, self-loathing, blood and loneliness.","brand":"Short Flight\/Long Drive Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47029485699312,"sku":"9780982530177","price":8.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780982530177_p0.jpg?v=1763888519","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780982530177","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}