I Was Trying to Keep to Myself

I Was Trying to Keep to Myself

I Was Trying to Keep to Myself is a debut story collection ranging from the hyperreal to the uncanny, the surreal to the fairytale, the woods to the desert to the basement. Sara Duff embroiders her fiction with meticulous attention to the sentence. These stories follow characters on the edge, from a woman who can’t make a decision without flipping a coin to the animal who lives inside the head of a man. Equal parts stage and stagehand, this collection attends to the beauty of life—both as it is intentionally made and as it preexists around us.