Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
1. The Piazza de Chirico
2. The Discovery of Dr. James Osborne Beckett
3. The Presentation
4. The Well at Founders Grove
5. The Abbreviated Life of Whitney Bascombe
6. Divination by Water
7. Nuptial Superstitions of the West
8. The Possession of Charles Ignatius De Leon
9. The Devil and the Dairy Princess
10. In the Empire of Cetaceans
Credits

About the Author

Pedro Ponce's fiction has appeared in Ploughshares, Alaska Quarterly Review, Gigantic, PANK, Copper Nickel, and other journals. His work has also been anthologized in Best Small Fictions 2019, New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction, and Boundaries Without: The Calumet Editions 2017 Anthology of Speculative Fiction. He is a 2012 National Endowment for the Arts fellow in creative writing. Ponce also teaches writing and literature at St. Lawrence University and is based in Canton, New York.

Reviews

"I found The Devil and the Dairy Princess to be strikingly original. Each piece is distinctive, innovative, and full of fresh surprises. Yet the collection as a whole is cohesive in tone and voice, evocative, playful, haunting spaces both dreamy and nightmarish."—Charles Yu, author of Interior Chinatown, Blue Light Books Prize Judge, author of Interior Chinatown
"Ponce's stories are filled with vivid topographies, moving reveries, and quiet wonders. A little bit Calvino, and a little bit Borges, this collection is like a strange and haunting museum: the perfect place to get lost in for a while."—Lincoln Michel, author of The Body Scout