"This anthology contains 25 of the best short stories published on the
web in 2009 and 2010, as chosen by the editors of ChamberFour.com, a
website dedicated to making reading more enjoyable and more rewarding.
Inside,you’ll find traditional, Carver-esque stories alongside magical
realist tales of teleportation, long pieces that slowly pull you in, and
single-page punches to the solar plexus. Some of these authors you’ve
heard of, others you’ll be discovering for the first time, and you can
be sure you’ll see them all again. No factor unifies the pieces
collected here beyond their publication online and that hard-to-define
but unmistakable hallmark of quality. These stories are as diverse and
as wide in scope as the Internet, but each is true to their shared
subject: the attempt to reconcile our world to the struggles of the
human soul. Featuring stories from great magazines like Boston Review,
Inkwell, Drunken Boat, Granta, AGNI, Night Train, Witness, Guernica, and
many more."