Welcome to another installment of If My Book, the Monkeybicycle feature in which authors compare their recently released books to weird things. This week Josh Denslow writes about Magic Can’t Save Us: Eighteen Tales of Likely Failure, his new story collection out from University of New Orleans Press.
If Magic Can’t Save Us was in the right place at the right time, it wouldn’t notice.
If Magic Can’t Save Us was having an existential crisis, you would absolutely regret asking what was wrong.
If Magic Can’t Save Us was vegan, it would still eat a lot of bacon.
If Magic Can’t Save Us repeated your name after meeting you for the first time, it would definitely not remember it the next time you saw each other.
If Magic Can’t Save Us answered correctly, it would be a lucky guess.
If Magic Can’t Save Us was a subatomic particle, it could never be accurately measured.
If Magic Can’t Save Us was the only one left in the apocalypse, that would mean, without a doubt, that it had something to do with it.
If Magic Can’t Save Us invited you out to dinner, there’s a good chance you would end up paying.
If Magic Can’t Save Us was a ghost, it would forget to cut eyeholes in the sheet.
If Magic Can’t Save Us started a workout program, it would give up after two days.
Josh Denslow is the author of Not Everyone Is Special (7.13 Books), Super Normal (Stillhouse Press), and Magic Can’t Save Us (UNO Press). His most recent short stories have appeared in Electric Literature’s The Commuter, The Rumpus, and Okay Donkey, among others. He is the Email Marketing Manager for Bookshop.org, and he has read and edited for SmokeLong Quarterly for over a decade. He currently lives in Barcelona with his family.
Order Magic Can’t Save Us here.