How Best to Avoid Dying is a short story collection by Austin writer Owen Egerton, published in 2007. It is his only collection of short fiction. The collection consists of eighteen stories, two of them having previously been published in the small magazines Puerto del Sol and Word Riot. Contents * "Spelling" * "Waffle" * "Christmas" (Originally published in Fish Anthology 2006.) * "Holy" * "The Martyrs of Mountain Peak" (Originally published in Puerto del Sol.) * "Lord Baxtor Ballsington" (Originally Published in Word Riot.) * "The Beginning of All Things" (Originally published in The Austin Daze.) * "Tonight at Noon" * "Four Tiny Tales Concerning Transformation" (Originally published in The Austin Daze.) * "Lazarus Dying" (Originally published in Tiferet: A Journal of Spiritual Literature.) * "The Adventures of Stimp" (Originally published in The Austin Daze.) * "The Fecalist" (Originally published in Blow.) * "Of All Places" (Originally published in Tiferet: A Journal of Spiritual Literature.) * "Licorice: a story for John Erler" * "St. Gibbler’s Day" (originally published in Blow and in a different form for Two Note Solo.) * "Arnie’s Gift" * "Goodnight" * "Lish" (Originally published in in Absinthe: New European Writing.)
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