{"product_id":"fast-machine-9780982530177","title":"Fast Machine","description":"\u003cp\u003eFiction. The stories in FAST MACHINE come in three sizes: flash  regular  and too-long-for-journal-publication. Some were previously published. Some are brand-spanking new. The opening story  \"State Liquor \" concerns a twenty-five-year-old woman and her eighteen-year-old husband trying to buy alcohol on their way to their strip mall jobs  the afternoon of their wedding. In \"Fistful \" a pregnant teenager gets revenge on the young man who both impregnated and beat her  before leaving town with another man. In \"Habitrail \" a woman returns home after the death of her father  to find her husband in communication with the television set and a god he calls Chaos  rather than her. There are over ninety stories in this collection. Repeated themes include: driving  smoking  teenagers  drinking  escape  the Midwest  masturbation  self-loathing  blood and loneliness.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67923800752181,"sku":"ByrdShop_098253017X","price":248.07,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780982530177.jpg?v=1794115289","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/fast-machine-9780982530177","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}