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CARAMEL FLOODS

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Caramel Floods,  by Fin Sorrel ISBN-13: 978-0998847641 ISBN-10: 099884764X 352 pages $25 Mmm, caramel… surreal and seeping, Sorrel’s stories dance through minefields without a sound, explode themselves over silent seas, and leave our galaxy behind on their way into the center of vision. Caramel Floods sets readers on a rowboat and shoves them toward the other side of the pond, where the rushes glow in the moonlight. The mannequin is causing a lot of ruckus in the kitchen, accidentally slamming plates, shattering bowls on the wall, and dropping glasses, while trying to run programs for breakfast that Allen had input ~ Allen and his wife stumble into the kitchen, in their underwear, and smoke sizzles out of the mannequin’s motor ~ Spinning the 90 pounds of rubber, metal and plastic in overloaded circles. A sound of overworked lawnmower motors is heard and Allen shouts something in computer language she can’t manage, and the mannequin stalls, to a halt, dropping the crock