The Keyhole Opera

Award-winning author Bruce Holland Rogers lives and writes in Eugene, Oregon, the tie-dye capital of the world. His previous short fiction collections include Flaming Arrows and Thirteen Ways to Water. In 2004, his story "Don Ysidro" won the World Fantasy Award for short fiction.

Since January 2002, for five dollars a year, subscribers in sixty countries have been receiving short-short stories by Bruce Holland Rogers in their email boxes. The stories are an unpredictable mix of literary fiction, science fiction, fairy tales, mysteries, and work that is hard to classify. Many of the stories in The Keyhole Opera began as subscription stories and went on to be published in magazines and anthologies.

Contents:

• An Introduction to an Overture to The Keyhole Opera by Michael Bishop
• Avery's Story
• The Last Unseen Window in the Last Unseen Car
• Lydia's Orange Bread
• Stallion
• As Far East
• Valentine
• The Burlington Northern Southbound
• The Goblin King
• Aftermath
• The Minor Poets of San Miguel County
• Spotted Dolphin
• Rich and Beautiful
• Red-Winged Blackbirds
• Alephestra
• Periwinkles
• Sea Anemones
• Gold
• Rag Monster
• Ghost Fever
• Don Ysidro (World Fantasy Award for short fiction, 2004)
  
• Murder, Mystery
• Vocabulary Items
• Resumé
• One Thing After Another
• Invasions
• Come the Revolution
• A Story for Discussion
• The Djinn Who Lives Between Night and Day
• Listening, Listening
• The Rower
• Half of the Empire
• Chambers Like a Hive
• Okra, Sorghum, Yam
• The Beast
• The One Who Conquers
• Tiny Bells
• The Dead Boy At Your Window
• Something Like the Sound of the Wind in Trees
• Dead White Guys
• The Main Design That Shines Through Sky and Earth