Teaching Notes for Last Days of the Microsaurs:
Use in the classroom to discuss: writing as an activity of play; segmented narratives; internal structures; the death drive; family dynamics; parenthood; usage of analogy and metaphor; depth collections; the formation and organization of a story collection; brevity; people shoved into family or gender situations that don't fit; uncanny characters in everyday environments; (not) belonging; survival amid extinction events; apocalypses; hopeful dystopia; dinosaurs.
 
Pairs well with You On Mars: Failed Sci-Fi Stories, Prehistoric, The Coupon Thief, Weird Weeks.

Last Days of the Microsaurs by Kelsie Hahn

$10.00

64 pages.

Perfect bound.

This is how dinosaurs have fun. They congregate at clubs; they keg-stand; they clutch at eggs and imagine the success of their babies. They don’t mind drawn-out dental exams or soggy bus seats. They don’t mind being bones. They know that there are things that even inescapable extinction events can’t erase. Winner of The Cupboard Pamphlet’s 2017 Annual Contest, Kelsie Hahn’s Last Days of the Microsaurs excavates the ancient impact remnants of every awkward interaction that predated you. So go on. Go extinct. Your dinosaur friends have something to tell you.
Kelsie Hahn's earliest writing award was a “Great Job” sticker from her elementary school principal on a story that aggressively misspelled paleontologist. Her more recent fiction has appeared in Fairy Tale Review, Passages North, Caketrain, Barrelhouse, NANO Fiction, and others. Her first chapbook, Responsibility, was published by Lit House Press. She holds an MFA in fiction from New Mexico State University, and she lives near Seattle with her husband.
"How would dinosaurs live in a materialist world of late capitalism and technology? Last Days of the Microsaurs cleverly answers that question with wit and humor. I chose this collection because it was weird and funny and heartbreaking all at the same time. These pieces creatively imagine our doomed reptilian ancestors in the modern world, and in doing so, they peel back our contemporary culture to reveal obsessions, insecurities, and oddities. There's a clarity of vision here in these words that surprised and delighted me."

- SJ Sindu judge of Cupboard's 2017 Annual Contest and author of Marriage of a Thousand Lies

"Kelsie Hahn’s Last Days of the Microsaurs dares you to imagine if: her dinosaurs outright reject extinction, and her prescient (and prehistoric) flashes are fragile and vicious and outstandingly funny."

- Lily Hoang author of A Beastiary

"The Last Days of the Microsaurs is a funny and deeply-felt collection, a pleasing wander through a world populated with dinosaurs who ride the bus, attend Weight Watchers and use emojis. It's illuminating to follow along as these primeval lizards navigate a landscape much like our own, rife with all of the quandaries of modern life. This is the fiction you'll want to be reading in our surreal moment."

- Carrie Murphy author of Fat Daisies

Last Days of the Microsaurs by Kelsie Hahn

Volume 33

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