{"product_id":"howtkm","title":"How the Mind Works, by Kat Meads","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eProse, chapbook, 40 pages, from \u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBottlecap Features\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eOn occasion, the mind tends to go haywire—wouldn’t you agree?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eThe flash fiction collection \u003cem\u003eHow the Mind Works\u003c\/em\u003e offers up quick tales that explore predicaments: the odd, the surreal, the inexplicable and the seemingly ordinary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eApparitions advise nieces on the art of courage. Nephews fall into a state of malaise gazing at the sky. Couples arrive for a sunset dinner and never depart. Sleepers sleep for four days and four nights and wake unrecognizable. Picnickers drift obliviously out to sea. The wives of absent husbands levitate. Vacationers hide in their rooms and refuse to sightsee. Neighborhood miscreants bash mailboxes. Children are forced to share the last slice of lemon pie. Temperatures fall and fall and fall inside a bedroom blooming colors, and lonely houses breed lonely inhabitants on vast and open plains.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eKat Meads is the author of more than 25 books and chapbooks of poetry and prose, including, most recently, the novelette \u003cem\u003eWhile Visiting Babette\u003c\/em\u003e (Sagging Meniscus, 2025). Her flash fiction has appeared in \u003cem\u003eGone Lawn\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMaudlin House\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eYour Impossible Voice\u003c\/em\u003e and was cited on \u003cem\u003eWigleaf\u003c\/em\u003e’s 2025 “Top 50” list. She is the recipient of writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and Montalvo Center for the Arts and won her third Independent Publisher medal in 2024 for an essay collection, \u003cem\u003eThese Particular Women\u003c\/em\u003e. Her short plays have been produced in New York, Los Angeles and Toronto. She lives in California. (katmeads.com)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kat Meads","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":50498692088123,"sku":"HOWTKM","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":50498692120891,"sku":"HOWTKMe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/files\/mindfront_e788141d-32b4-452b-a842-378cf1749b04.png?v=1755018746","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/howtkm","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}