Winston Salem, NC: Press 53 (March 5, 2026)

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A reality TV show centers around hungry tigers let loose in a New Jersey shopping mall.

A vaudeville-era quick-change artist comes to town, dazzling an ambitious journalist and inspiring murder.

A professional mediator confronts the fact that she is bored to tears by her now-sober husband.

A business sets up shop in Mississippi masquerading as an overseas call center specializing in poor customer service.

A jealous professor slowly vanishes bit by bit along with the story itself, word by word.

At turns tragic, comic, absurdist, and heartbreaking, the eleven astonishing stories in Quick Change (including two Pushcart Prize winners) reveal the full, startling range of ourselves to ourselves.

Michael Kardos is the Pushcart Prize-winning author of three previous novels, most recently Bluff, as well as the story collection One Last Good Time. Originally from the Jersey Shore, he co-directed the creative writing program at Mississippi State University for over a dozen years before moving with his family to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.