Can’t Wait Wednesday: Speculative Fiction Short Stories

Happy Wednesday friends! Here’s hoping that the week has been treating you nicely so far. I hope you’ve been staying cool, and reading all sorts of good books too.

**Can’t-Wait Wednesday** is a weekly meme hosted here, at Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we’re excited about that we have yet to read. Generally they’re books that have yet to be released. It’s based on Waiting on Wednesday, hosted by the fabulous Jill at **Breaking the Spine**. If you’re continuing with WOW, feel free to link those up as well! Find out more **here**.

My book choice this week is one that caught my eye the instant I saw the synopsis. The very kind people at Harper Collins sent me an email to promo this book, and offer me a digital review copy. One look, and I immediately snapped it up. I LOVE speculative fiction. It’s a space where so many interesting things can happen, full of intrigue and sometimes even a bit of borderline horror. So when I saw that this is a series of short stories and they’re all interconnected? You’d better believe that I was sold. I can’t wait to dive in, and leave a review for you all soon!

“Chris Vanjonack’s Out of Body is its own singularity. A dazzling collection where characters aren’t bound to a single story, let alone a single universe. Teeming with haunts and heartbreak, this book will leave you breathless.” — Gus Moreno, author of This Thing Between Us

A wildly inventive collection of interconnected speculative stories—spanning the multiverse, demonic attachment, and life after death—from an electrifying new voice in fiction.

An aimless ghost haunts his ex-girlfriend for evidence that she’s actually upset about his death.

A group of teens discovers a machine that purports to predict the best day of its users’ lives.

A young woman is horrified to discover that an aggressive stranger she met on a night of bar-hopping now manifests in every photo that is taken of her.

A drunken posse descends into the woods in search of clowns that have been terrorizing their small town.

Chris Vanjonack’s fiction is haunted not only by specters of death, but by the elusive questions of life, and above all, the wonder and horror of the infinite. Uncanny, surreal, and infectiously clever, the stories in this linked collection contain horrors great and small, fueled as much by the fantastic as by longing, dread, and all-too-human frailties.

Morbidly funny and brilliantly observed, Out of Body is an atmospheric, dead original feast for the senses.

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What are you waiting on?