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and she's forced to consider how far she'll go to protect her trade

young Eileen's story is told from the gimlet-eyed perspective of the now much older narrator

or leave to fight for the emperor in an army of girls just like her

I Am the Oil of the Engine of the World Children's Studies the civilization now known asPublished by Split Lip Press, Jared Yates Sexton's third collection of stories turns the eye to the ravages of the American Disease with twenty five of his wildest and most experimental pieces. Narcissism. Sexism. Consumerism and technological fetishism. The cult of media and the rot of war. Told in raving mad prose fit for these savage times, Sexton skewers every sacred cow in an attempt to diagnose the sickness of Now.