Song for the Deaf

Songs for the Deaf is a joyful, deranged, endlessly surprising book of stories that defy easy categorization, in addition to the laws of physics (girls ”ride air,” aliens plummet from the sky, a basketball-messiah shoots hoops). Fleming’s prose is glorious music; his rhythms will get into your bloodstream, and his images will sink into your dreams.
—Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove

Dedications

From Songs For The Deaf

Hayley Fleming

The only time we should be scared is when the wind stops talking.
--from "Wind and Rain" p. 147

Hayley Fleming (Tampa, FL)

Grayson Tubbs (Missoula, MT)

"The known world diminished overnight, the encroaching mysteries a sudden reminder of the folly of knowing."

Grayson Tubbs (Missoula, MT)
from "Cloud Reader" p. 11

Arianna Chafetz (Cambridge, MA)

"The alien smiled at the general's words and especially at the general's thoughts, though the general could not see the smile, hidden as it was in the alien's clasped palms."

Arianna Chafetz (Cambridge, MA)
from "Xenophilia" p. 126

News

Songs for the Deaf takes a prize

Sorry for the long delay! I’m pleased to announce that Songs for the Deaf is the winner of the International Book Award in short fiction….

Songs for the Deaf reviews

I’m back in town and catching up on things… Many thanks for all the Songs for the Deaf reviews that have come in so far:…