Aurelie Sheehan is the author of two novels, History Lesson for Girls (Viking Penguin, 2006) and The Anxiety of Everyday Objects (Penguin Books, 2004), as well as a short story collection, Jack Kerouac Is Pregnant (Dalkey Archive Press, 1994). Her work has been widely published in venues including Alaska Quarterly, Conjunctions, Epoch, Fairy Tale Review, Fence, New England Review, The New York Times, Ploughshares, and The Southern Review. She has received a Pushcart Prize, a Camargo Fellowship, the Jack Kerouac Literary Award, and an Artists Projects Award from the Arizona Commission on the Arts. Sheehan teaches in the MFA program at the University of Arizona in Tucson, where she lives with her husband and daughter.

• TABLE OF CONTENTSJewelry Box 1T-Shirt 4Duck 6Story 8Telephone Call 10Cup of Coffee 13Shoes 14A Liar and Her Brother 16Suntan Lotion 18Rage 20Sexual Fantasy 21Mascara 23Bra 25Daughter 26House 27Poetry Reading 29Letters 30Age at Which You Consider History 33Pillbox 34Book 37Photograph 39Car Ride 41Hair 46Living Room 47Paper in Back of Folder 45Artists 50Joke 52Wallet 57Boat 59Dishes the Cat Used, Now Stored in the Laundry Room 60Glass 63Gun 64Talk 66Purse 67Loneliness 70Rabbits 71Big Truck 73Texas 74Grain of Sand 77Television 78Unremembered Thing 80Plastic Bits 81Ambition 82Pain 83Vampire 89Motherhood 90Loss Itself 92Kitchen 93Bratz Doll 95Boots 96Cigarette 97Stone 98Old Girlfriend 99Kleenex Box 100Devotion 102Mushroom Paté 103Quote 105Body of Water 106Tail 107Small Buddha 108Color Chart 109Density 111Song 113Fire 114Policemen 115Paper Bag 116Mermaid 118Tooth 119

The Story Prize Blog's 'Outstanding 2013 Short Story Collections' "Micro-fictions, flash-memoirs, prose poems, incidents, anecdotes, extended metaphors-there's no differentiation on the book's part, nor is there much need, as most of the pieces are glittering little truths whether factual or not... In the end it's the images within the pieces--stories, memoirs, whatever you want to call them--that remain under your skin." -Inside Higher Ed "Rather than getting ensconced in the heavy drape of narrative, these short flares of memory allow the reader to enter Sheehan's memories as they are in her mind--a jumble of moments, people, objects, and sounds as they exist before analysis and ordering." -Publishers Weekly "Sheehan's histories focus on moments, on objects, on fragments. We, the readers, do the rest, carrying through our days Sheehan's embodiments of familiar things, letting our own minds and experiences fill in her ellipses." -Three Guys One Book "Not quite prose poems, not quite flash fiction, not quite memoir--nonetheless all of the above--the little pieces in Aurelie Sheehan's new collection that she calls 'histories' do, in fact, hint at her life history... Her entries--some as short as a single paragraph; none longer than a few pages--explore feminine sexuality, motherhood, daughterhood, and the writer's life related to feminine sexuality, motherhood, daughterhood." -Tucson Weekly "The book is written as if to disprove the fact that our trinkets are useless -- 58 stories that coalesce into a study of connection, a whole that becomes greater than the sum of its parts... Sometimes dream-like, autobiographical, or poetic, the book resists mere categorization in favor of assembling a vivid collection of instances imbued with nostalgia and import." - Brooklyn Rail "Many of the stories are relatable and go into private depths not often explored. Sometimes mundane things are fascinating, only because we don't generally dwell on them. And sometimes mundane things, taken out of context, become profound." -Trop "...the value is in each piece's ghostly history, where it has been, whose it was, what resonant deep emotions (pains, joys, fears, loves) are embedded in its tiny form. These histories can be quiet, and they can be loud. They can be momentous and they can be focused on almost overlookable interstices between such memorable moments ... There is an energy, a humor, and a raucous charge running through these stories, building beyond itself."-DIAGRAM "The jewelry box serves perfectly as a metaphor for a collection of histories composed of memories, objects, shards, 'all the hard, broken things' that we inevitably grow up and take possession of over a long period of time: a lifetime, no less, in which Sheehan and her multitude of narrators/voices reminds, we may never see 'the whole story.'" -New Letters

Aurelie Sheehan is the author of two novels, History Lesson for Girls (Viking Penguin, 2006) and The Anxiety of Everyday Objects (Penguin Books, 2004), as well as a short story collection, Jack Kerouac Is Pregnant (Dalkey Archive Press, 1994). Her work has been widely published in venues including Alaska Quarterly, Conjunctions, Epoch, Fairy Tale Review, Fence, New England Review, The New York Times, Ploughshares, and The Southern Review. She has received a Pushcart Prize, a Camargo Fellowship, the Jack Kerouac Literary Award, and an Artists Projects Award from the Arizona Commission on the Arts. Sheehan teaches in the MFA program at the University of Arizona in Tucson, where she lives with her husband and daughter.

• TABLE OF CONTENTSJewelry Box 1T-Shirt 4Duck 6Story 8Telephone Call 10Cup of Coffee 13Shoes 14A Liar and Her Brother 16Suntan Lotion 18Rage 20Sexual Fantasy 21Mascara 23Bra 25Daughter 26House 27Poetry Reading 29Letters 30Age at Which You Consider History 33Pillbox 34Book 37Photograph 39Car Ride 41Hair 46Living Room 47Paper in Back of Folder 45Artists 50Joke 52Wallet 57Boat 59Dishes the Cat Used, Now Stored in the Laundry Room 60Glass 63Gun 64Talk 66Purse 67Loneliness 70Rabbits 71Big Truck 73Texas 74Grain of Sand 77Television 78Unremembered Thing 80Plastic Bits 81Ambition 82Pain 83Vampire 89Motherhood 90Loss Itself 92Kitchen 93Bratz Doll 95Boots 96Cigarette 97Stone 98Old Girlfriend 99Kleenex Box 100Devotion 102Mushroom Paté 103Quote 105Body of Water 106Tail 107Small Buddha 108Color Chart 109Density 111Song 113Fire 114Policemen 115Paper Bag 116Mermaid 118Tooth 119

The Story Prize Blog's 'Outstanding 2013 Short Story Collections' "Micro-fictions, flash-memoirs, prose poems, incidents, anecdotes, extended metaphors-there's no differentiation on the book's part, nor is there much need, as most of the pieces are glittering little truths whether factual or not... In the end it's the images within the pieces--stories, memoirs, whatever you want to call them--that remain under your skin." -Inside Higher Ed "Rather than getting ensconced in the heavy drape of narrative, these short flares of memory allow the reader to enter Sheehan's memories as they are in her mind--a jumble of moments, people, objects, and sounds as they exist before analysis and ordering." -Publishers Weekly "Sheehan's histories focus on moments, on objects, on fragments. We, the readers, do the rest, carrying through our days Sheehan's embodiments of familiar things, letting our own minds and experiences fill in her ellipses." -Three Guys One Book "Not quite prose poems, not quite flash fiction, not quite memoir--nonetheless all of the above--the little pieces in Aurelie Sheehan's new collection that she calls 'histories' do, in fact, hint at her life history... Her entries--some as short as a single paragraph; none longer than a few pages--explore feminine sexuality, motherhood, daughterhood, and the writer's life related to feminine sexuality, motherhood, daughterhood." -Tucson Weekly "The book is written as if to disprove the fact that our trinkets are useless -- 58 stories that coalesce into a study of connection, a whole that becomes greater than the sum of its parts... Sometimes dream-like, autobiographical, or poetic, the book resists mere categorization in favor of assembling a vivid collection of instances imbued with nostalgia and import." - Brooklyn Rail "Many of the stories are relatable and go into private depths not often explored. Sometimes mundane things are fascinating, only because we don't generally dwell on them. And sometimes mundane things, taken out of context, become profound." -Trop "...the value is in each piece's ghostly history, where it has been, whose it was, what resonant deep emotions (pains, joys, fears, loves) are embedded in its tiny form. These histories can be quiet, and they can be loud. They can be momentous and they can be focused on almost overlookable interstices between such memorable moments ... There is an energy, a humor, and a raucous charge running through these stories, building beyond itself."-DIAGRAM "The jewelry box serves perfectly as a metaphor for a collection of histories composed of memories, objects, shards, 'all the hard, broken things' that we inevitably grow up and take possession of over a long period of time: a lifetime, no less, in which Sheehan and her multitude of narrators/voices reminds, we may never see 'the whole story.'" -New Letters

Aurelie Sheehan is the author of two novels, History Lesson for Girls (Viking Penguin, 2006) and The Anxiety of Everyday Objects (Penguin Books, 2004), as well as a short story collection, Jack Kerouac Is Pregnant (Dalkey Archive Press, 1994). Her work has been widely published in venues including Alaska Quarterly, Conjunctions, Epoch, Fairy Tale Review, Fence, New England Review, The New York Times, Ploughshares, and The Southern Review. She has received a Pushcart Prize, a Camargo Fellowship, the Jack Kerouac Literary Award, and an Artists Projects Award from the Arizona Commission on the Arts. Sheehan teaches in the MFA program at the University of Arizona in Tucson, where she lives with her husband and daughter.

• TABLE OF CONTENTSJewelry Box 1T-Shirt 4Duck 6Story 8Telephone Call 10Cup of Coffee 13Shoes 14A Liar and Her Brother 16Suntan Lotion 18Rage 20Sexual Fantasy 21Mascara 23Bra 25Daughter 26House 27Poetry Reading 29Letters 30Age at Which You Consider History 33Pillbox 34Book 37Photograph 39Car Ride 41Hair 46Living Room 47Paper in Back of Folder 45Artists 50Joke 52Wallet 57Boat 59Dishes the Cat Used, Now Stored in the Laundry Room 60Glass 63Gun 64Talk 66Purse 67Loneliness 70Rabbits 71Big Truck 73Texas 74Grain of Sand 77Television 78Unremembered Thing 80Plastic Bits 81Ambition 82Pain 83Vampire 89Motherhood 90Loss Itself 92Kitchen 93Bratz Doll 95Boots 96Cigarette 97Stone 98Old Girlfriend 99Kleenex Box 100Devotion 102Mushroom Paté 103Quote 105Body of Water 106Tail 107Small Buddha 108Color Chart 109Density 111Song 113Fire 114Policemen 115Paper Bag 116Mermaid 118Tooth 119

The Story Prize Blog's 'Outstanding 2013 Short Story Collections' "Micro-fictions, flash-memoirs, prose poems, incidents, anecdotes, extended metaphors-there's no differentiation on the book's part, nor is there much need, as most of the pieces are glittering little truths whether factual or not... In the end it's the images within the pieces--stories, memoirs, whatever you want to call them--that remain under your skin." -Inside Higher Ed "Rather than getting ensconced in the heavy drape of narrative, these short flares of memory allow the reader to enter Sheehan's memories as they are in her mind--a jumble of moments, people, objects, and sounds as they exist before analysis and ordering." -Publishers Weekly "Sheehan's histories focus on moments, on objects, on fragments. We, the readers, do the rest, carrying through our days Sheehan's embodiments of familiar things, letting our own minds and experiences fill in her ellipses." -Three Guys One Book "Not quite prose poems, not quite flash fiction, not quite memoir--nonetheless all of the above--the little pieces in Aurelie Sheehan's new collection that she calls 'histories' do, in fact, hint at her life history... Her entries--some as short as a single paragraph; none longer than a few pages--explore feminine sexuality, motherhood, daughterhood, and the writer's life related to feminine sexuality, motherhood, daughterhood." -Tucson Weekly "The book is written as if to disprove the fact that our trinkets are useless -- 58 stories that coalesce into a study of connection, a whole that becomes greater than the sum of its parts... Sometimes dream-like, autobiographical, or poetic, the book resists mere categorization in favor of assembling a vivid collection of instances imbued with nostalgia and import." - Brooklyn Rail "Many of the stories are relatable and go into private depths not often explored. Sometimes mundane things are fascinating, only because we don't generally dwell on them. And sometimes mundane things, taken out of context, become profound." -Trop "...the value is in each piece's ghostly history, where it has been, whose it was, what resonant deep emotions (pains, joys, fears, loves) are embedded in its tiny form. These histories can be quiet, and they can be loud. They can be momentous and they can be focused on almost overlookable interstices between such memorable moments ... There is an energy, a humor, and a raucous charge running through these stories, building beyond itself."-DIAGRAM "The jewelry box serves perfectly as a metaphor for a collection of histories composed of memories, objects, shards, 'all the hard, broken things' that we inevitably grow up and take possession of over a long period of time: a lifetime, no less, in which Sheehan and her multitude of narrators/voices reminds, we may never see 'the whole story.'" -New Letters