Are People Out There is a collection of short stories and flash fiction that's odd and playful and comes in a perfect pocket-sized form (brilliantly designed as an homage to Grace Paley).

From the publisher: "The second collection of short, daring, hilarious, and cursed fictions from Shane Kowalski. It deals in the inimitable Kowalski manner with the usual kinds of people and the lives, or double-lives, they lead: men who steal babies’ identities, women who become dogs to rich couples on the weekend, neighbors who build guillotines in their yards all summer, and teenagers who are haunted forever by their school plays, just to name a few. It is the irreducible strangeness of these stories that compels you, the reader, further into these other lives. If you go far enough, you may even recognize your own life amongst them." 

Published by Portland's own Future Tense Books.

150 pages, paperback (4.25 x 7 inches), ISBN 979-8-9986256-1-9