Aliens In the Soda Machine and Other Strange Tales

A collection of short stories years in the making, this volume represents story worlds ranging from the inside of an exclusive art gallery to the ramshackle rural settlement of an inbred family. Monsters of the human variety and otherwise dwell within these pages, so does magic, myth and complicated interior landscapes.

"Aliens in the Soda Machine and Other Strange Tales is true to its title, delivering a series of strange stories that don't reveal their strangeness until the reader has already been sucked in by Lutz's vivid and engaging descriptions of otherwise not-strange people and places. The transitions into surreality are so seamless, however, that the wonderfully bizarre elements feel perfectly natural. The stories are imaginative, absorbing, and at times painfully vulnerable." - Kristen Tsetsi