After moving from Peru north of the Arctic circle to begin graduate school, Claudia Ulloa Donoso began blogging about insomnia. Not hers, necessarily – the blog was never defined as fact or fiction. Her blog posts became the bones of Little Bird, short stories with a nod to fervent self-declaration of diary entries and the hallucinatory haze of sleeplessness. Blending narration and personal experience, the stories in Little Bird stretch reality, a sharp-shooting combination of George Saunders and Samanta Schweblin. Characters real and unreal, seductive, shape-changing, and baffling come together in smooth prose that, ultimately, defies fact and fiction.

Table of Contents Published by VM eBook THE TALE OF PETER RABBIT BY BEATRIX POTTER THE TALE OF BENJAMIN BUNNY FOR THE CHILDREN OF SAWREY FROM OLD MR. BUNNY THE TALE OF THE FLOPSY BUNNIES IN REMEMBRANCE OF "SAMMY," THE INTELLIGENT PINK-EYED REPRESENTATIVE OF A PERSECUTED (BUT IRREPRESSIBLE) RACE. AN AFFECTIONATE LITTLE FRIEND. AND MOST ACCOMPLISHED THIEF! THE ROLY-POLY PUDDING THE TALE OF MR. TOD THE TALE OF MRS. TIGGY-WINKLE THE STORY OF MISS MOPPET THE TALE OF MR. JEREMY FISHER FOR STEPHANIE FROM COUSIN B. THE TALE OF TIMMY TIPTOES FOR MANY UNKNOWN LITTLE FRIENDS, INCLUDING MONICA THE PIE AND THE PATTY-PAN THE TALE OF JEMIMA PUDDLE-DUCK A FARMYARD TALE FOR RALPH AND BETSY THE TALE OF PIGLING BLAND FOR CECILY AND CHARLIE, A TALE OF THE CHRISTMAS PIG. THE TALE OF PIGLING BLAND THE TALE OF TWO BAD MICE FOR W. M. L. W. THE LITTLE GIRL WHO HAD THE DOLL HOUSE