"A collection of rather disturbing short stories. 'Enjoyed' really wouldn't be the right word. 'Impressed' would be nearer the mark."
~ - Scott Pack, THE FRIDAY PROJECT
"There are no safe, saccharine fairy tale endings. This is contemporary Brothers Grimm for adults."
- Pauline Masurel, THE SHORT REVIEW
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EAVESDROP:
“It is no mean achievement to sustain such a story-like lyricism over the long haul of a book-length collection. This is a remarkable debut. A keeper that keeps keeping on.”
- Michael Martone, author of MICHAEL MARTONE
“The stories in Erin Pringle’s first collection possess the charm of fairy tales, the wisdom of poems, the hope of prayers, the weight of eulogies, and the intimacy of letters home.”
- ~Tom Noyes, author of SPOOKY ACTION AT A DISTANCE AND OTHER STORIES
erinpringle.com Copyright © 2009-2010 Erin Pringle
THE FLOATING ORDERis her first book; she is at work on a second book entitled MIDWEST IN MEMORIAM. She lives in Spokane, WA.
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ERIN PRINGLE
A native of the Midwest, Erin Pringle has her B.S. in English from Indiana State University and her M.F.A in Creative Writing from Texas State University.
Her work has been published in over two dozen magazines, nominated for a Pushcart Prize, named a Best American Notable Non-Required Reading, and shortlisted for the 2007 Charles Pick Fellowship.
FORTHCOMING
"Why Jimmy" in The Austin Anthology: Emerging Writers of Central Texas
"Looker" in Online Writing: The Best of the First Ten Years
"This Bomb My Heart" inWar, Literature, & The Arts
PUBLICATIONS
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"The Only Child" in Barrelhouse
"Looker" in Adirondack Review
"Park" in Snow*vigate
"Moxie" in Bonfire: An International Conflaguration
"Losing, I Think" in Whistling Shade
"Stay" in Porcupine Literary Arts Magazine
"Raw As Hands" in Pagitica in Toronto
"Remember Ella" in Quarter After Eight (QAE), 9
"Wednesday Night Reflections, Edited Thursday" in QAE, 10 and Not Normal, Illinois
"The Magnolia Lyric" in QAE, 11
"Digging" in Lake Effect (Issue 10)
"Skeletons/My Fourth Birthday/Hell is Channel Three" in SUB-LIT
"Trolls" in Whistling Shade
"Mabel and Ivy" in Downstate Story, Volume XIII
"Pygmalions" in Ugly Accent, Fall 2007
"All I Have Left" in Project for a New Mythology and Etchings
"Sanctuary" in Dark Recesses Press (Issue 9)
"Rabbits" in Interbirth Books and INTER 01
"Why Jimmy" in Austin Chronicle Online Edition
"Drift" in pacificReview
"The Goblin Train" in kadar koli
"Sleight" in DogzPlot
"Every Good Girl Does Fine" in BIG PULP
"The Floating Order" inElectric Velocipede
"The Boy Who Walks Across Fields" inINTER 01
"Midwest in Memoriam" in New York Tyrant, Vol 2. Issue. 1
"Asylum" in Dogzplot, Fall '09 Issue
"Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary" in Red Mountain Review
"Palestine, IL" in Big Pulp
Copyright © 2009-2010 Erin Pringle
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THE FLOATING ORDER
They say methodical. One by one in the bathtub. They say methodical therefore guilty.
I save my babies in the morning. The sky very blue that morning. Like tiny hands smearing rivers down walls. The
bathroom walls are too white. Whiter than the place my husband puts me when I'm not a perfect wife.
Some of my babies' pictures hang on my walls that's my favorite the house the birds the sky but not the sky that
morning or the sky now. The sky now raining rain I have to stare at the razor fence to see.
Someday, I will write a book. I have been contacted. I will start with Wynken, Blynken, and Nod and end with my
sad husband and a bible quote. There are so many to choose from. . . .
AND YET
There are times on an elevator when a person can imagine that, rather than going down, the elevator is going up, just like the times when spring looks like fall, or winter like summer, and someone in November can imagine the next month is May.
But convincing oneself of May during November and staying
convinced are two different matters, maybe as different as life and death or as similar in the way that it's a compliment to say that the child's corpse in the coffin looks at peace. . . .
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REVIEWS of THE FLOATING ORDER
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NODS to Individual Stories in Journals
"Goblin Train"
"Moxie"
"Magnolia Lyric" (scroll down to QAE review)
"The Floating Order"
"Wednesday Night Reflections, Edited Thursday"
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Erin Reading WHY JIMMY
(finalist in 2008 Austin Chronicle Short Story Contest)
