The third cover for this week's releases - another short story by C.M. Simpson, this one in the magic realism genre.
All her life Lily has prepared herself for
taking over the family farm. The property talks to her, the animals and plants
thrive under her care, and even the old tractor bends to her will. Her brothers
have other careers planned, and help Lily position herself to take over when
they are gone, but her father has other ideas. He wants to pass the farm on to
one of his sons. He says pigs might fly before a girl would be any good at
running a farm. How is Lily going to convince him that farming is the only
thing she has ever wanted to do, and that she is the best of his offspring to take
over when he is gone? And what do her dreams and hopes have to do with flying
pigs?
Pigs Might Fly is a story of magic realism, where
the world we see is only nearly as it seems to be.
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