Mice 1961

Verse Chorus Press, 2024

Synopsis:  Two sisters don’t like it when a woman comes to live behind their couch in 1961.

As a Greek chorus of neighborhood characters cavort and joke their way through a local party, the sisters and their ardent admirer cross paths with an unsettling stranger--leading to momentous changes for all.

Excerpts from Mice 1961 have appeared in recent issues of Your Impossible Voice, Golden Handcuffs Review, The Western Humanities Review, and Phantom Drift.

The Girl with Brown Fur

A collection of 28 tales and stories
Starcherone/Dzanc Books

Finalist for the Washington State Book Award

“Smart and playful, these fictions are also deadly serious about the world they reinvent, and the standard realism purporting to mirror this world.”
—Pedro Ponce, American Book Review

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Frances Johnson, A Novel

Verse Chorus Press

Originally published by Clear Cut Press

Finalist for the Washington State Book Award

Should Frances Johnson leave her hometown of Munson, Florida in search of the chicken-beak oil, needed for Dr. Palmer’s secret balm? Or should she marry Mark Carol, the new doctor in town—though there’s little indication that he’s interested? Frances’s military-history obsessed boyfriend, Ray Garn, encourages her to do the latter. Meanwhile, outside town, there’s an undersea volcano that erupts occasionally as Frances explores, on her bicycle, the boundary-lines of dreary Munson and her existence as well.

“Every sentence sneaks open the strangeness of reality, making most writing seem dull and safe.” —John Son

Dra—

Verse Chorus Press, 2012.

A comic, disturbing novel, reissued by Verse Chorus Press. Dra—, indecisive and powerless, proceeds to a nameless employment agency with a certainty that only a job can give her an identity. At first, Dra— is afraid even to enter the agency because of her fear of The Man with No Hair. Once inside, she must endure a mockingly upbeat lecture on the virtues of holding a job, and the imperious Administrator. She is offered a choice between a job at a remote encampment, and another researching and classifying dust.

“Levine puts the emotional violence of human relations under a high-power microscope.” —Kristy Eldredge

My Horse

Sun & Moon Press, 1994

Levine’s first story collection and PEN/USA Award winner from the PEN USA Center.

“Her first collection of short tales reads with such precisely turned sentences that it seems to have been written with a scalpel.” —Douglas Messerli

JFK vs. Predator chapbook
by Stacey Levine & Chuk Baldock

from New Pacific Press

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