{"product_id":"somegk","title":"Something Strange, by Grove Koger","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eProse, chapbook, 28 pages, from \u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003e\u003ca style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBottlecap Features\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eWe live in a strange world. Our lives are shaped by that strangeness, but familiarity so blunts its face that we no longer see it. To the infant, everything is strange except its mother’s body. We adults apply labels such as “time” and “light” and “gravity” to the forces that shape our existence, but those forces remain absurdly, dauntingly strange. They lie far beyond rational explanation, and we have no path forward.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eThe world we dream about tonight will be strange, and, should lightning strike as we sleep, the world we awaken to so suddenly will be frighteningly strange. We fear what’s strange—and rightly so—but it lives in the house down the street, lurks behind a friend’s familiar voice, waits patiently on the other end of a phone call. Should we answer? Do we dare?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eGrove Koger is the author of \u003cem\u003eNot\u003c\/em\u003e, a chapbook of poetry; and \u003cem\u003eWhen the Going Was Good: A Guide to the 99 Best Narratives of Travel, Exploration, and Adventure\u003c\/em\u003e. He’s also Assistant Editor of \u003cem\u003eDeus Loci: The Lawrence Durrell Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, and blogs about travel and related subjects at https:\/\/worldenoughblog.wordpress.com\/author\/gkoger\/\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Grove Koger","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":49964595151163,"sku":"SOMEGK","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":49964595183931,"sku":"SOMEGKe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/files\/strangefront.png?v=1737664659","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/somegk","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}