34 Stories / 124 Beloved

From a boy witch to a parental cyborg, from a homeless cat to a misunderstood hen, from a girl trapped beneath a building to a lonely empress on a faraway planet-you''ve never read a collection of stories like this one!

34 STORIES / 124 BELOVED contains the finalists from the 2020 Literary Taxidermy Short Story Competition-a contest that invites aspiring writers to stitch together their own stories using the first and last lines from a classic work of fiction. This year''s participants were given two choices: the opening and closing lines of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, or Beloved by Toni Morrison. 34 STORIES contains the Huxley finalists, while 124 BELOVED contains the Morrison finalists-but both collections have been bundled together into a single volume called 34 STORIES / 124 BELOVED. 

Yes, that''s right-this year''s antho