fwriction

Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever is one of the quirkiest, strongest short story collections to hit the literary scene. Taylor’s style and particularity make reading his work a unique experience. This Story of the Day appears, in slightly different version, in the collection:

“When she smiles it turns her cheeks to waxed apples but she wasn’t smiling right then there at the window. She was thinking: not about storms and their raw energy, or the oak tree with its rigid labyrinth thrust skyward, how she might soon witness her ceiling broken thereby: wood obliterating other wood fast as a miracle running backwards.”