Severance

  • Severance: Stories
    By Robert Olen Butler

    Presents sixty-two stories, each exactly 240 words in length, that reveal the thoughts and feelings of individuals whose heads have been severed from their bodies, including such characters as Medusa, Anne Boleyn, a chicken, and a man ...

  • Severance: Stories
    By Robert Olen Butler

    Here are the imagined ultimate words of famous and invented figures—Medusa, Sir Walter Raleigh, Anne Boleyn, Jayne Mansfield, and a chicken, beheaded for Sunday dinner.

  • Severance: A Novel
    By Ling Ma

    "A stunning, audacious book with a fresh take on both office politics and what the apocalypse might bring." —Michael Schaub, NPR.org “A satirical spin on the end times-- kind of like The Office meets The Leftovers.” --Estelle Tang, ...

  • Severance: A Novel
    By Ling Ma

    "A stunning, audacious book with a fresh take on both office politics and what the apocalypse might bring." —Michael Schaub, NPR.org “A satirical spin on the end times-- kind of like The Office meets The Leftovers.” --Estelle Tang, ...

  • Severance
    By Julie Boglisch

    ... talking with Karina over a week ago. After all, it was relatively peaceful the past few months and his full focus was on Ma. Now, he didn't have that focus, that direction. Their ma was safe, relatively speaking. He trusted Madeline to ...

  • Severance
    By Ling Ma

    This is a clever and dextrous debut.’ Publishers Weekly ‘[A] semi-surreal sendup of a workplace and its utopia of rules, not unlike Joshua Ferris's Then We Came to the End . . .

  • Severance
    By Ling Ma

    But things are not as they seem and soon she must plot her escape An original, sharp and funny literary debut that explores themes of belonging, alienation, late-capitalism, overconsumption and the immigrant experience Severance has been on ...

  • Severance
    By Robert Olen Butler

    The stories, which have appeared in literary magazines across the country, are a delightful and intriguing creative feat from one of today's most inventive writers.

  • Severance
    By Robert Fanning

    " Peter Markus author of the novel Bob, or Man on Boat "Robert Fanning's Severance contains a large grief miniaturized and given a proscenium stage and a script.