Welcome back to the Short Fiction Spotlight, a weekly column dedicated to doing exactly what it says in the header: shining a light on the some of the best and most relevant fiction of the aforementioned form.
Just the one story for your today, folks, but the debut Digital Original from the folks at FSG Books is a doozy. “Dead Pig Collector” emerges fully-formed from the delightfully demented mind of Warren effing Ellis, author of any number of ground-breaking contemporary comics—including Transmetropolitan, Planetary, Red, Gravel and Global Frequency—and a pair of prose pieces, namely Crooked Little Vein and this year’s Gun Machine.
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