"This is a remarkable collection. I am Struck in particular by the range of imagination and by the prose. It is new, overwhelmed and overwhelming, and very strong, the power, insistence, occasional humor, and frequent beauty of the author's voice carries the reader as surely as conventional fiction used to." --- Renata Adler<BR><BR>"Tina May Hall is, at heart, a lyric poet of mood and image who realizes that each sentence is an acoustical event, Take this book into a quiet place, because even the spaces between words make the most exquisite of sounds." ---Peter Markus<BR><BR>"Like miniature boxes inventively and carefully wrapped, Tina May Hall's stories open to reveal the prize inside: worlds spun from caught moments, little mysteries, and shimmery incantations. Nimbly charting a terrain between fiction and poetry, reality and another realm, this is a book of insights both delicate and keen from a singular new voice." ---Anne Sanow, author of `Triple Time, winner of the 2009 Drue Heinz Literature Prize<BR><BR>The Physics of Imaginary Objects, in fifteen stories and a novella, offers a very different kind of short fiction, blending story with verse to evoke fantasy, allegory, metaphor, love, body, mind, and nearly every sensory perception. On each page there is something to delight the eye and inspire wonder.<BR><BR>In these stories, magical things happen in very ordinary places. A bottomless hole opens up in a Midwestern town. A pregnant woman's house becomes a magnet for wildlife. The pulling of a tooth maps a journey into the heart. The daily news becomes a litany of omens, superstitions, and visitations.<BR><BR>These texts use carefully honed and lyrical language to pull on --- and weave together--- the often-invisible tethers that connect our lives.