{"product_id":"call-my-body-a-cautionary-tale-reading-book-signing-november-5th-6pm","title":"Call My Body a Cautionary Tale Reading \u0026 Book Signing November 5th 6pm","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"zZj8Pb EaVNbc\"\u003eJoin us for an evening of flash fiction in celebration of the release of Christina Tudor's collection Call My Body a Cautionary Tale. Featuring readings by Christina Tudor, Josh Dale, Avitus B. Carle, and Christina Rosso. Book signing to follow. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"zZj8Pb EaVNbc\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"zZj8Pb EaVNbc\"\u003eThursday, November 5th 6pm at A Novel Idea on Passyunk\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"zZj8Pb EaVNbc\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"zZj8Pb EaVNbc\"\u003eSuggested $5 Donation\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"zZj8Pb EaVNbc\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"zZj8Pb EaVNbc\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbout Call My Body a Cautionary Tale\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart magic, part real life, these stories feature unruly characters and the bodies they live in. Girls have third legs, a grieving couple gets a mail order ghost to haunt their house, a woman participates in a self-defense simulation, and more. CALL MY BODY A CAUTIONARY TALE weaves together eighteen urgent, darkly humorous stories in which characters attempt to have agency over their bodies, choices, and futures in an uncertain, often unsafe world. Stories in this book have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and featured in Best Small Fictions, and according to Kathy Fish (Wild Life: Collective Works), “while reminiscent of the work of Carmen Maria Machado, this collection comes to us from a writer of inimitable voice and vision.” This collection is part of Thirty West Publishing's 2026 Chapbook Project: Fall Cohort.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"zZj8Pb EaVNbc\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"toUqff vfzv\" id=\"xDetDlgDesc\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout the Featured Readers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChristina Tudor\u003c\/strong\u003e is a writer living in Washington, D.C. Her fiction has been featured in \u003ci\u003eCRAFT, SmokeLong Quarterly, matchbook, The Citron Review, Best Small Fictions 2024\u003c\/i\u003e, and more. She has received nominations for the Pushcart Prize and the Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers, and was a 2022 PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow in fiction. CALL MY BODY A CAUTIONARY TALE is her debut collection of flash fiction. Connect with her on Instagram @christinaltudor or at \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.christinatudor.com\u0026amp;sa=D\u0026amp;source=calendar\u0026amp;usd=2\u0026amp;usg=AOvVaw2sSM18GcvzKOKM93mL9SmT\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ewww.christinatudor.com.\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"toUqff vfzv\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"toUqff vfzv\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJosh Dale\u003c\/strong\u003e lives in Pennsylvania and recommends playing metal music to your cat. He’s the founder of Thirty West Publishing House, co-host of the Bring a Blanket reading series, and the author of\u003ci\u003e RAGE: Stories\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDuality Lies Beneath\u003c\/i\u003e. Drop a line at \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.joshdale.co\u0026amp;sa=D\u0026amp;source=calendar\u0026amp;usd=2\u0026amp;usg=AOvVaw1M_qhm7AdvdQgd2C4evgfU\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ewww.joshdale.co\u003c\/a\u003e or on most social media @jdalewrites\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"toUqff vfzv\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAvitus B(uckhaulter) Carle\u003c\/strong\u003e (she\/her) lives and writes outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her stories have been published in a variety of places, including \u003ci\u003eGhost Parachute, X-R-A-Y Litmag, SoFloPoJo, Necessary Fiction, The Commuter\u003c\/i\u003e (Electric Lit.), and elsewhere. Her work was selected for the 2025, 2024, and 2022 Best Small Fictions anthology, the \u003ci\u003eWigleaf\u003c\/i\u003e Top 50 in 2023 and 2024, the 2022 and 2020 Best of the Net anthology, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, PEN\/O. Henry Prize, and the Best Microfictions anthology. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChristina Rosso\u003c\/strong\u003e (she\/they) is a queer, disabled writer and bookstore owner based outside Philadelphia with her bearded husband and rescue pups. She is the author of CREOLE CONJURE and SHE IS A BEAST. Her debut novel, THE LAST SHEAF, is forthcoming from Blackstone Publishing. She is the co-owner of A Novel Idea on Passyunk, an independent bookstore and event space, named one of the best bookstores in the region by The Philadelphia Inquirer. When she isn’t writing, working at the bookstore, or recording her podcast Hello, Sister, she reads tarot and casts spells under the full moon. 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