ANIMAL HUSBANDRY
new short stories
Enter the Dark, Hilarious, and Haunting World of Animal Husbandry by Taylor García: A Collection of Stories for Our Times
Published by Unsolicited Press, this collection dives into the raw and
transformative journeys of men navigating their own personal apocalypses as their worlds—both real and virtual—crumble and evolve around them.
With striking wit and provocative storytelling, García crafts vivid portraits of husbands, fathers, influencers, and lovers trying to reshape themselves in a rapidly changing world.
Biography
Grown in New Mexico, now in Southern California, I’m a working writer and single father raising sons in a world both wondrous and terrifying.
As an emerging curandero, I seek my own cures, and I know that words, both spoken and written, movement, and immersion into the natural world are soothing medicines.
For me, writing is a mysterious inception and sacred catharsis. I write from the heart, the gut, the soul and from places beyond: Opening spaces between myself and the reader where we share, imagine, and empathize. Explore the worlds I’ve created and join my characters on journeys to places they crave, revisit too often, and wish to avoid; where sadness and humor collide, irony redeems, and darkness reveals the light.
In the words of Gabriel García Márquez who first inspired me to write: “He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.” -from Love in the Times of Cholera
Praise for Taylor García
“Taylor Garcia’s stories are tough and tender-hearted, brief and astonishing dramas that show us what we know to be true: that our families are designed to drive us crazy, but also to bring us deeper into ourselves. I loved these stories.”
Steve Almond
Author of All the Secrets of the World, the national best seller Candyfreak, and Bad Stories
“The stories in Functional Families are sharp, surprising glimpses of those moments of life when the cracks start to show, when a border is crossed, when it’s clear things will never be the same. Taylor Garcia writes with great heart and humor and I gobbled up his wonderful collection.”
Jess Walter
Author of the national best seller The Cold Millions, and the #1 New York Times Bestseller Beautiful Ruins
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