Download Stories and Essays by M. Allen Cunningham

M. Allen Cunningham is continually adding stories and essays to his e-book catalog on Smashwords. Each can be downloaded in multiple formats for the price of a coffee -- or less! The current offerings (with more appearing frequently) include:

• Sight Unseen, a short story about discovering one's own blind spots. Originally published in Pear Noir.
• Chimera, a short story about the human capacity for failure and faith.
• The Man in the Blue Coat: A Chamber Picture in Six Acts, a whimsical, surrealist short story about the seemingly infinite distances between ourselves and others. Originally published in Snow Monkey.
• The Sky at Her Back, flash fiction about love, loss, and looking at one's life like a picture
• Variations on the Morning of the World, an essay about the passage of time, the experience of being lost, the construction of memory, and the mysteries of imagination
• Prose Conjuration: The Art of Reading Cormac McCarthy, an essay originally published in Poets & Writers Magazine, considering McCarthy's entire corpus and the trajectory of his career.
• The Giant's Face, flash fiction originally published in Boulevard, about how it's only when you're young and small that you really understand the bigness of things.