Heartland Calamitous, Michael Credico
Heartland Calamitous, Michael Credico
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Heartland Calamitous

Author: Michael Credico

Narrator: John Michnya

Unabridged: 5 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/02/2025


Synopsis

Emerging from deep in America’s flyover states, Michael Credico’s flash fiction collection portrays an absurdist, exaggerated, and bizarre vision of the Midwest known as the heartland. The stories are clipped views into a land filled with confusion and chaos, mythical creatures, zombies, comic violence, shapeshifters, and startling quantities of fish. The characters of Heartland Calamitous are trying to sort out where, who, and what they are and how to fit into their world

Reviews

Goodreads review by Katie

It is difficult not to find this book beguiling. It is as unique as they come. The stories in "Heartland Calamitous" are at once horrifying and exploratory. Thoughtful, yearning. Sometimes sweet. Love and death are twisted sisters, both ethereal and fumbling. Absorbing this little book is to be abso......more

Goodreads review by Mike

AHP selected this book as our first publication from our open reading period, and I absolutely adore and recommend this book to anyone who will listen! It's surreal, witty, constantly transforming, written in a style reminiscent of Barthelme's "The School," intersecting the absurd, the surreal and e......more

Goodreads review by Amanda

Credico's rubbery stories are like dreams in your mouth. Echos of lost people, stumbling through dark places, working towards escape to goodness, reaching towards each other, returning with hands either empty or full of cut hair and wilted grass. Dark, surreal and funny, too.......more