Nevers Paperback – May 1, 2014

Nevers is amazing. I stumbled on it by chance via Caketrain and am forever glad that I did. It's the kind of writing that imprints itself on your thought-process. It's funny, smart, insane... Megan Martin's style is uniquely her own - I can't wait to read something else from her and will definitely keep my eye out for her name.

Great flash fiction. Interesting narration, and adorably nice author (I skyped with her).

"Nevers" is a must-have collection of short fiction by Megan Martin, a startlingly original and gifted writer. Often surreal, sometimes humorous, sometimes disturbing, always artful, these are compact stories, most of them topping out at just one or two pages. But they are crammed with images that don't let go, and are presented with a narrative style that is unforgettable. The first person narrator makes references to Martin's real-life publisher, Caketrain, as well as Megan Martin herself (fictionally, and alternately, one guesses, semi-fictionally); and the narrator makes metafictional references also to the book itself, and even, individual pages. On page 91, a story opens with an Easter egg of sorts, words left for an ex-boyfriend ("B", who may or may not be fictional), the subject of some of these stories:"Page 91, this limp little piece of paper stuffed deep into this tiny nothing book, is the only place you'd ever discover that, despite her better judgment, a woman still dreams about you."Whether or not the players and the feelings conveyed here, are "true," no matter, this is amazing prose.As Melissa Schwenk relates in her review for Coal Hill Review,"Ultimately, nothing about Megan Martin’s book Nevers is easy to define and that is the brilliance of the work."http://www.coalhillreview.com/book-review-nevers-by-megan-…/Well said. And it is difficult to know what more to add, other than suggest you let Martin's words speak for themselves. Read some of the stories from Nevers in the generous 44 page sample provided by the publisher, Caketrain, then purchase the book from Amazon or Barnes & Nobles, or directly from the publisher.

I can't overstate the importance of this collection; a profound gift is alight on every page and the whole is a doorway into a new kind of writing altogether. Readers who love important fiction have been waiting for the first creative yield of the new wave of feminism, and here is its harvest: confident, fearless, utterly unwilling to not take risks and satisfying as great literature. When Martin finishes her first novel, I'll be the first in line to purchase it.Charles Bane, Jr., author of The Chapbook, Love Poems; creator of The Meaning Of Poetry series for The Gutenberg Project and nominee as Poet Laureate of Florida.