Steal Me For Your Stories, the debut collection from New York author Robb Todd, pulls the reader in opposite directions, mixing the tender and vulnerable with the raw and sometimes raunchy, a hard and soft clip to the ears. It’s a journey you want to go on, even though you are not sure what to pack, the weather being completely unpredictable.
Todd’s stories, often set against harsh city backdrops heavy with trash and pigeons, are entwined with raw emotion and texture. Steal Me For Your Stories discovers the extraordinary within the ordinary, and Todd’s prose reminds us there is poetry in all things.
This book was released on January 31, 2012. Steal Me For Your Stories is on Google + and Goodreads.
Steal Me For Your Stories is now available.
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A.K. Mayhew at Reading Through College
Table of Contents
Our Costume Is A Kiss
Everything I Think About When I Am Trying Not to Think
Why Are You Telling Me This?
The City from a Bridge
Gracias, Pero Sí
Natalie, Lahaina, Nov 74
Razor Wire
How to Survive Strong Pesticides
Wanted
Eardrum Alphabet Orbit
Drunk Dynamite Fishing
Three-Story : Love Story
Again White and Black
The Unintended Consequences of Teaching Manners
Colon Dash Parenthesis
Salmon Jump Into the Open Mouths of Bears
A Voice That Will Get You Anything Everything Ever
He Brushes His Teeth Just to Call Her
Inside Skin
All You Need Is Love (and a Job (or Maybe Not a Job))
Bars Over Business Windows
Yeah Yeah I Will I Promise
Proof That God Loves Us And Wants Us To Be Happy
The Faces of Tiny Animals
And Her Eyes Said Something I Did Not Understand
Tonight : Under Scaffolding
Following Sea
Embryo-Eater
Flex Baby Flex Baby One Two
Quiet the Remedies
A Short Conversation
Every Moment Is Lovely, Yes