False Bingo, Jac Jemc
False Bingo, Jac Jemc
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False Bingo
Stories

Author: Jac Jemc

Narrator: Julie McKay

Unabridged: 5 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/29/2019

Categories: Fiction, Short Stories


Synopsis

In Jac Jemc's dislocating second story collection, False Bingo, we watch as sinister forces (some supernatural, some of this earth, some real, and some not) work their ways into the mundanity of everyday life.

In "Strange Loop," an outcast attempting to escape an unnamed mistake spends his days taxiderming animals, while in "Delivery," a family watches as their dementia-addled, basement-dwelling father succumbs to an online shopping addiction. "Dont Let’s" finds a woman, recently freed from an abusive relationship, living in an isolated vacation home in the South that might be haunted by breath-stealing ghosts.

Fueled by paranoia and visceral suspense, and crafted with masterful restraint, these seventeen stories explore what happens when our fears cross over into the real, if only for a fleeting moment. Identities are stolen, alternate universes are revealed, and innocence is lost as the consequences of minor, seemingly harmless decisions erupt to sabotage a false sense of stability. False Bingo is a collection of realist fables exploring how conflicting moralities can coexist: the good, the bad, the indecipherable.

About Jac Jemc

Jac Jemc is the author of My Only Wife, a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction and winner of the Paula Anderson Book Award; the short-story collection A Different Bed Every Time; and the novel The Grip of It, named a finalist for the Chicago Review of Books Award for Fiction and a recommended read by NYLON, W, Marie Claire, and Entertainment Weekly. She teaches at Northeastern Illinois University and StoryStudio Chicago, as well as online at Writers & Books and the Loft Literary Center, and she is the web nonfiction editor for Hobart.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jac

Let's start the rating off right. :)......more

Goodreads review by Sraah

any other 1/5 - i don't understand lmao this girl bethany jus wylin' out playing pretend, huh? delivery 4/5 - upon finishing i out loud said, "what?" this was such a mind fk and i honestly have no idea what i just read but i enjoyed it and want more, i want to understand what was really going on stra......more

Goodreads review by Justin

4 stars Having enjoyed the novel The Grip of It by the same author a couple years back, I decided to pick up False Bingo on a whim. Typical with short stories collection, there are bound to be ones that resonant more than the others, but overall I'm happy to say the writing is extremely consistent: o......more

Goodreads review by Tyler

Jac Jemc is my favorite. This is a fact. She has such an incredible knack for supernaturalizing the mundane and expanding the everyday. This short story collection is darkly funny, critically honest, and wide open for interpretation. My favorite stories were Maulawiyah, wherein a woman on a technolo......more

False Bingo is a short story collection written by one of my favorite indie authors. Jemc’s haunted house novel Grip Of It was a spine-tingling descent into the vulnerability of relationships. I loved every single thoughtfully placed syllable in that novel. If you haven’t read it yet, do yourself th......more