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Product Description Three stories reflecting California's intense pressures and addictions: "Sparkling Arabella", high on crystal meth astride a Harley, ascends into the stars. Will she find grace at last? A boy, a girl, and a dog meet in the Viper Room, looking for love on the eve of a devastating Los Angeles earthquake. And "Silicon Valley", once filled with apricot orchards, becomes a dream killer for a workaholic on the verge of cashing in. Jane Ciabattari is the author of the critically acclaimed short story collection Stealing the Fire. Her short stories have been published in Long Island Noir (Akashic Books), the Literarian, KBG Bar Lit, Lost magazine, Chautauqua magazine, Literary Mama, VerbSap, Ms., the North American Review, Denver Quarterly, and Hampton Shorts (which honored her with an Editors' Choice Award), among others. She writes the Between the Lines column for the BBC and is a regular contributor to NPR, the Daily Beast, and the Boston Globe. A former president of the National Book Critics Circle, she now serves as vice president. She is on the advisory board for the Story Prize. This is a short audiobook published by Shebooks - high-quality fiction, memoir, and journalism for women, by women. About the Author Jane Ciabattari is the author of the critically acclaimed short story collection "Stealing the Fire", an Iowa Short Fiction finalist (Kirkus Reviews: "Ciabattari is a master of transformation as she gives these stories of loss, woe, crisis and collapse the salutary and sometimes bracing qualities of plain good fiction"), selected for the Dzanc Books rEprint Series. Her short stories have been published in or are forthcoming in Nothing Short of 100: Selected Tale from 100WordStory, edited by Grant Faulkner, Lynn Mundell and Beret Olson; A Book on the Table, a flash anthology commissioned for April 2018 Independent Bookstore Day; New Flash Fiction Review, Long Island Noir, edited by Kaylie Jones (Akashic Books), The Literarian, t