Strange folk you'll never meet / A.A. Balaskovits.

The tale of a hungry beauty -- The mother left behind -- In the belly of the bear -- The mad monk's weeping daughter -- The candy children's mother -- Match girl -- Home belly wants -- Mama floriculture -- Egest Leporidae -- Strange folk -- A girl without arms -- A woman with no arms -- An old woman with silver hands -- They all could have loved you until you ate that child -- A tale of two adoptions -- How one girl played at slaughtering -- The skins of strange animals -- Get bent -- Mama had a baby and her head popped off -- Girl teeth -- A girl, a bird, a rocket to the moon.

"From A.A. Balaskovits, author of Magic for Unlucky Girls, this new collection of unusual, fabulist fiction leads you down strange paths for dark encounters with familiar fairy tales, odd people from history, and weirdos who may be living right next door. Among the characters in these bizarre stories, a starving beauty finds a beast who can save her village, a man eats everything in sight but is never full, a woman gives birth to bloody animal parts, and a daughter is forced to dance every night to the reenactment of her fathers' murder. These tales invite you to spend time with people who, in the maddest of circumstances, chew their way forward. With elements of psychological horror, sly humor, and the fantastic, these stories will burrow under your skin, haunt your dreams, and make you wonder what worlds lie just beyond that tiny hole in the wall." -- Provided by publisher.