Patterns of Orbit

Stories

Chloe N Clark

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Baobab Press
10 August 2023

Myth & legend told as fiction

Chloe N Clark'sPatterns of Orbitspans genres, perspectives, and styles to articulate contemporary uncertainties in a rapidly changing world.

Patterns of Orbit.

By: Chloe N Clark
Imprint: Baobab Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 127mm,
ISBN: 9781936097470
ISBN 10: 1936097478
Pages: 166
Publication Date: 10 August 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Contents There is the World Within this Window 1 A Sense of Taste 5 Even the Night Sky Can Learn to be a Fist 13 The Waves Hear Every Promise You Make 15 The Day Lasts Longer the Further Away You Are 25 A Place You Know 27 This Skin You Call Your Own 31 Swingman 35 Buoyancy 39 Who Walks Beside You 41 Out in the Dark 51 Simultaneity 63 Wearing the Body 65 Long in the Tooth 79 Even the Veins of Leaves 81 Run the Line 93 Accidental Girls 97 Underwater Even Bells Sound Like Bodies 111 Static 113 Red as the Night Sky Burning 135 Supernova 137 Jumpers 139 Shapeless 149 The Ocean is Not Empty 157 We Are Still 165 So Far The Distance 167

Chloe N. Clark is the author of the short story collection Collective Gravities, an NPR pick for Best Books of 2020, as well as the poetry collections Escaping the Body, Your Strange Fortune, and more. She is a founding co-editor-in-chief of the literary journal Cotton Xenomorph.

Reviews for Patterns of Orbit: Stories

Chloe Clark's stories are compact marvels of miniaturized mystery, something like what I imagine you might get if you stranded Steven Millhauser in interstellar space. Patterns of Orbit is a smart, moving collection, one that might permanently expand what you imagine possible, leaving you searching out fresh wonder everywhere you go. -Matt Bell, author of Appleseed Chloe Clark is one of my favorite writers. Somehow she manages, in story after story, to capture-with perfect clarity and precision-the mystery and wonder and heartbreak of existence. And really, that's all I ever want. -Ben Loory, author of Tales of Falling and Flying From interstellar travel to cities of the dead, Clark masterfully constructs constellations of memory, hope, and wonder. These genredefying stories will make you look up at the sky and deep into your soul. -Sequoia Nagamatsu, National Bestselling author of How High We Go in the Dark This is a landmark collection. I would recommend it to anyone who likes short fiction, regardless of genre. -Supernatural Tales, (Jan. 18, 2023) In Patterns of Orbit: Stories Chloe N Clark accomplishes in a few pages what others can't pull off in a hundred. -TNBBC's The Next Best Book Blog (Feb. 5, 2023) Simply transcendent across all galaxies, Patterns of Orbit is a must-read for fans of Ted Chiang. -Allison Cho, Booklist (March/April 2023) Patterns of Orbit gathers well-crafted stories that move through the darkness of space, delivering interstellar insights about searching for lost loved ones. They are about what's uncanny in the universe and about humanity's unknowability, isolation, and existence. -Elaine Chiew, Foreword Reviews (March/April 2023)