Black Shapes in a Darkened Room is a collection of witty, visceral, and darkly imaginative short fiction from the author of the novel The Concrete Sky. Revenge and eroticism, humor and despair, the supernatural and the everyday... Marshall Moore draws new contour lines and makes new connections in this nighttime map of the human soul.

Contents

Black Shapes in a Darkened Room
The Right Way to Eat a Bagel
Sex and Dragons
For Your Own Good
Notes on a Disappearance
Enough Oxygen
It'll Kill You If You Let It
Everybody Loves the Musée d'Orsay
Sunset Over Brittany
Fixed
Hard to Put into Words (or, The White Garden)
Hurricane Season
Sic Gloria Transit
In the City of Warm Red Light
Simon Says
The Glue Factory
There and Back
The Night Tattoo

Read Enough Oxygen at Velvet Mafia.

Read The Right Way to Eat a Bagel at Outsider Ink.

Read Sunset Over Brittany at The Barcelona Review.

Visit the Marshall Moore webpage at suspect thoughts for more tasty stories.

Author Photo by Jack Lee

Marshall Moore is the author of the novel The Concrete Sky. He is a North Carolina native who has lived in Washington DC, Oakland, Portland, and most recently, Seattle. He collects ink in the form of tattoos and passport stamps, reads constantly, and probably ought to get more sleep.