{"product_id":"figs-by-lukas-tallent","title":"Figs, by Lukas Tallent","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eProse, chapbook, 40 pages, from\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003e\u003ca style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBottlecap Features\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“All I have left…” begins the narrator of the title story in \u003cem\u003eFigs\u003c\/em\u003e, Lukas Tallent’s second collection of flash fiction, where characters are enthralled, trapped, dislodged, and sometimes, redeemed by their incessant want for another.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eFigs\u003c\/em\u003e is hot and aching. Every story is pulled taut, thrumming with tension: sexual or otherwise. Its characters reach for physical reminders of their desires: discarded still warm t-shirts, lip stained coffee mugs, streaks of body wash clinging to shower walls. They’ve lost something, are hungry, even desperate, to claw it back. By the end of this collection, like them, you’ll want more. So here’s permission if you need it: devour these pages, inhale their scent on your fingers, keep coming back.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e—Mike Keller-Wilson, editor of \u003cem\u003eVast Chasm Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\"Lukas Tallent’s \u003cem\u003eFigs\u003c\/em\u003e is a tapestry of 21st-century romance and all of its turbulence, weaving between thrilling nights, texts left on read, and all of the confusion in between. This selection of stories is for the person who wakes up at 2 a.m., groans, and asks, “Why did I say that?”\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e—Anna Andersen, editor of \u003cem\u003eWrong Turn Lit\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\"In the condensed bouillon of Lukas Tallent's stories, young men and women – gay, straight, and undecided – tumble through their twenties like clothing in a dryer. Backed by a cool jazz score, attire plays a leading role. Wet cotton and dry, stretch fabrics and flannels – it all shares center stage in deft tales of people in the act of raveling and unraveling their lives and desires.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e—Stuart Watson, author of Ashes to Ashes and Driving and Drinking with Dracula\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\"In \u003cem\u003eFigs\u003c\/em\u003e, Lukas Tallent demonstrates a fearless commitment to his craft and goes where most writers fear to tread! Here his prose is sublimely lyrical, and his characters have poignancy and depth. His is a voice to be reckoned with!\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e—Elizabeth Dylan Bercovici, founder of Magical Storytelling\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\"The characters in Lukas Tallent’s tightly crafted chapbook \u003cem\u003eFigs\u003c\/em\u003e reside in the liminal, transitory space between young adulthood and adulthood. Tallent’s stories provocatively weave together themes of sex, sexuality, longing, and loss into a maudlin portrait that rings true and lingers. Figs is an excellent, engaging read.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e—JD Clapp, author of \u003cem\u003eFive Things That Happened in Bars and Poachers and Pills\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eLukas Tallent lives in New York City. His work has recently appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe Forge\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNothing Sacred: Outspoken Voices in Contemporary Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eIn Parentheses\u003c\/em\u003e, and many other places. His debut novel is forthcoming from Braddock Avenue Books in Fall 2024. You can find more of him at lukas-tallent.com or lukastallent.substack.com.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bottlecap Press","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":47543257006258,"sku":"FIGSLT","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":47543257039026,"sku":"FIGSLTe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/figsfront.png?v=1780354567","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/figs-by-lukas-tallent","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}