We Are All But Fumbling Creatures2026
by Chad B. Anderson
A collection of short stories and artwork. From the publisher:
A roaming journey through Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley across time.
From an unlikely band of runaways fleeing slavery, to a fractured family searching for answers amid a climate-ravaged future, Chad B. Anderson’s debut collection entwines short stories with mixed media artworks by Jeffrey D. Guinn. Inspired by the Southern Gothic tradition, We Are All But Fumbling Creatures explores the tangled impacts of history, geography, trauma, and the natural world on who we become and what we pass down.
Guinn’s assemblages – created from wood scraps, dirt, animal bones, and other detritus gathered throughout the Shenandoah Valley – contain their own stories that complement and converse with Anderson’s motifs of...