Spatfall by Abby Lipscomb

Title: Spatfall
Author: Abby Lipscomb
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 978-1-955082-05-1

There are many wild souls worth meeting in Spatfall. Here resides a boy who kills a rattlesnake he cannot tame and cherishes its bones in an old cookie tin. Another preserves his pet praying mantises by painting their fresh corpses. A senescent mother finds solace in her petulant cat as she grapples with their parallel decline, and another’s life begins to splinter under the imposing weight of a trespassing bear. Abby Lipscomb composes a landscape of brilliant brutality in this collection of stories where flawed humans find both truth and tragedy on the edge of the natural world.