Stories from Real Life

These intriguing and spare flash fictions of Tony Crunk, with inspired drawings by Sharpie artist Peter Wilm, combine into a surreal and tasty feast of language and art. Crunk, a Yale Series of Younger Poets winner, offers up characters with large hands, Bedouins, a man who cries himself to sleep, and giant rodents. It's a splendid world that Crunk has created and that Wilm has illustrated.