Within the thirteen stories of Whitney Collins's Big Bad dwells a hunger - dark, deep, and hilarious. Part domestic horror, part flyover gothic, Big Bad serves up real-world predicaments in unremarkable places (motels, nail salons, tiki bars), all with Collins's heart-wrenching flavor of magical realism. A young woman must give birth to future iterations of herself; a widower kills a horse en route to his grandson's circumcision; a mother morphs into a giant clam to escape domesticity. Collin's cast of characters must repeatedly choose to fight or flee the big bad" that dwells within us all. Winner of the Mary McCarthy Prizein Short Fiction, and boasting a 2020 Pushcart Prize, Big Bad simultaneously entertains and disconcerts." | Big Bad by Whitney Collins, Paperback | Indigo Chapters