Collected Stort Shories

A ten-piece collection that puns on its own typos and describes itself as "ten of the stortest shories ever written." The pieces fold algorithmically generated language in with found and documentary materials: a fictionalized Bigmart employee-rule change, a discussion about purchasing death, a Halloween affidavit, a radiation-themed Christmas story.

The method is the point. An overheard rule or affidavit, left with its own logic running, becomes the engine of the prose. The book is the page-side record of a procedure Belgum has been pursuing for decades on radio and recording, where the same instinct works by ear.

It is the only book Belgum has published with us, and the one place to read the procedure on the page: language treated as found material, sequenced for the strangeness inside it rather than rewritten out.