May 19, 2026
PAPERBACK | 4 x 6 | 48 PAGES | $15.00
978-1-954992-17-7
FICTION | CHAPBOOK | SHORT STORY
Our people had moved to Bounty because the land was there and it was empty, and now all we had was the emptiness and one another.
When Albert Rasmussen loses his wife, he proposes something unthinkable: that he and his children sleep through the winter. What begins as one family’s attempt to escape their sorrow spreads across town, drawing neighbors into a collective hibernation that promises rest, renewal, and release—at a cost no one can fully name.
Horrocks writes with the emotional acuity of a realist and the imaginative charge of a fabulist, turning a quiet premise into a haunting meditation on rest, avoidance, and the strange rituals communities build around loss.
Caitlin Horrocks is author of the story collections Life Among the Terranauts and This Is Not Your City, both New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice selections. The Wall Street Journal named her novel The Vexations one of the Ten Best Books of 2019. Her stories and essays appear in The New Yorker, The Best American Short Stories, The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, The Pushcart Prize, The Paris Review, One Story, and other journals and anthologies. She was previously a senior fiction editor at The Kenyon Review.
May 19, 2026
PAPERBACK | 4 x 6 | 48 PAGES | $15.00
978-1-954992-17-7
FICTION | CHAPBOOK | SHORT STORY
Our people had moved to Bounty because the land was there and it was empty, and now all we had was the emptiness and one another.
When Albert Rasmussen loses his wife, he proposes something unthinkable: that he and his children sleep through the winter. What begins as one family’s attempt to escape their sorrow spreads across town, drawing neighbors into a collective hibernation that promises rest, renewal, and release—at a cost no one can fully name.
Horrocks writes with the emotional acuity of a realist and the imaginative charge of a fabulist, turning a quiet premise into a haunting meditation on rest, avoidance, and the strange rituals communities build around loss.
Caitlin Horrocks is author of the story collections Life Among the Terranauts and This Is Not Your City, both New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice selections. The Wall Street Journal named her novel The Vexations one of the Ten Best Books of 2019. Her stories and essays appear in The New Yorker, The Best American Short Stories, The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, The Pushcart Prize, The Paris Review, One Story, and other journals and anthologies. She was previously a senior fiction editor at The Kenyon Review.
