Not Ready for Real Life Brian Burke and other merry-go-round melodies… Even

and other merry-go-round melodies… Even without the images

5 SLOP AROUND

Fans of the Flight anthologies (Villard) will cheer for the return of Zita

Walter Scott’s sly wit and social commentary zero in on MFA culture as our hero hunkers down to complete a master of fine arts at the University of Hell in small-town Ontario

as mortal and relatable as Marjane Satrapi

Not Ready for Real Life Brian Burke and other merry-go-round melodies… EvenBy Ding Peo Yen. Published by Glacier Bay Books. Softcover, 92 pages, Monochrome, 2025. by Ding Pao Yen. Published 2025 by Glacier Bay Books. ISBN 978 1 953629 43 2 An all new collection of 4 short stories clustered around the idea of young adulthood in a futuristic yet nostalgic world. Vampires, kaiju, ancient fish eggs, and silent underwater cities, all overlapping with the vicissitudes and precarity of starting to find your way in the world. Ding