Waiting for Elephants is a collection of atmospheric horror, romance, and adventure stories by Jaleta Clegg.
What if? This is how Jaleta Clegg looks at the world, and her mind is constantly churning through ideas. The most persistent get written down. Waiting for Elephants contains 34 of these ideas-five of them in the form of poetry-and 21 of those appear here for the first time!
You’ll find twisted and reimagined fairy tales, stories of derring-do and adventure in the far reaches of the galaxy, strange game shows, ramen delivery (no, really!), spacefaring housekeepers who strive for more, interstellar transplanted Irish ghosts, angelic voices on frontier desert planets, and more.
Don’t take anything at face value in these stories, though. What you least suspect or never expected is the norm here. Start your journey into the unknown with this imaginative collection!
This is the ninth volume in the Legacy of the Corridor publication series.
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Contents (all works by Clegg unless otherwise noted):
- “Legacy of the Corridor” (essay) by Joe Monson
- “Como Esperar Para Elefante” (essay) by Joe Monson
- “A Journey into a Wondrous Land of Imagination” (essay)
- “Words” (poem)
- “Waiting for Elephants”
- “The Ultimate Space Race”
- “The Quest”
- “Bait and Switch”
- “Math Games”
- “One-Way Ticket to Paradise”
- “Metamorphosis”
- “The Angels of Mestora”
- “Smothered” (poem)
- “2am Allergies”
- “Trained Monkeys”
- “Blood Song”
- “Hot Monkey Yoga”
- “Born on a Tuesday”
- “Cousin” (poem)
- “Twin Suns of the Mushroom Kingdom”
- “Mrs. Pettigrew and the Spaceship”
- “Welcome to the Calormancer Weight Loss Clinic!”
- “Aunt Ruby’s Jam Cake”
- “Twist of Fate”
- “Soul Dark” (poem)
- “CinderJane”
- “Fredinando Approaches”
- “A Matter of Decency”
- “Jo-Lene”
- “Pass the Butter”
- “Oh, My Darling”
- “It’s Always Sunny at the Fortress of Bones”
- “Let There Be Light”
- “Baba Yaga and the Dragons”
- “The Soul of an Artist”
- “Perfect Harmony”
- “Musings of a Sand Dollar”
Edited by: Joe Monson
Cover Artist: Tithi Luadthong
Published by Hemelein Publications.
Release Date: September 2023 (ebook and trade paperback)
ISBN: 978-1-64278-037-6 (trade paperback), 978-1-64278-038-3 (ebook)
LCCN: 2023938798
Price: $17.99 (trade paperback), $5.99 (ebook)
