Songs for the Deaf: Stories - Softcover

"All music worth playing is worth playing loud, and the volume on 'Songs for the Deaf' should be turned all the way up. John Henry Fleming riffs on renegade cloud readers, drifters seeking out their long-lost midwives, and random floating girls. ..." -- Jeff Parker, author of "Ovenman" and "The Taste of Penny" "cover copy"

"These stories somehow stay firmly on their tracks through wonderful narrative hairpin turns, the sentences sure in their gait, and as with most satisfying stories, it's hard to tell whether the characters have guided themselves to the serendipitous endings... or whether they've been secretly dragged there by the superb skill of the storyteller." -- John Brandon, author of "A Million Heavens" and "Citrus County" "cover copy"

A little desert town gets a sexual charge from a crash-landed alien. A dysfunctional family tries to summit Everest with “discount Sherpas” and yakloads of emotional baggage. A teen messiah emerges from a game of 3-on-3. The stories in John Henry Fleming's Songs for the Deaf, the first story collection by the “marvelously inventive” and “winningly satiric” author of The Legend of the Barefoot Mailman, put an intimate and modern spin on the American tall tale. Stories in the collection have appeared in McSweeney's, North American Review, Atticus Review, 100% Pure Florida Fiction, and elsewhere.