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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 6, 2025
STILLHOUSE PRESS TO PUBLISH TELL ME YOURS, I’LL TELL YOU MINE, DEBUT SHORT STORY COLLECTION FROM KRISTINA TEN: AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER NOW
FAIRFAX, VA (June 6, 2025) – Stillhouse Press presents the short story collection Tell Me Yours, I’ll Tell You Mine from debut author Kristina Ten, to be released on October 7, 2025.
Stephen Graham Jones, author of The Only Good Indians, calls the collection “A joyous, incisive, inventive, and vital run of stories.” Tell Me Yours, I’ll Tell You Mine gathers twelve short stories that, though varied in voice and theme, are united by their exploration of the darker undercurrents of childhood and play. Populated by living paper dolls, summer camp legends, and trivia nights gone wrong, the collection delves into memory, disobedience, alienation, and the eerie experience of inhabiting a body others seek to control. From a student who uncovers a sinister force in an English-learning CD-ROM to an empire clinging to hope through cootie catchers and soda-can tabs, each tale distorts a familiar game, revealing the unsettling consequences that follow.
According to Ten, this collection is for readers who “enjoy stories that stand alone like tasty morsels, but together make the perfect meal—especially those drawn to subtle horror and the nostalgia of childlore.” With haunting clarity and speculative flair, Kristina Ten crafts tales that, in the words of Kevin Brockmeier (The Brief History of the Dead), are “marvels,” each one offering new ways “to surprise and discomfort.”
Tell Me Yours, I’ll Tell You Mine is available now for preorder exclusively from Stillhouse Press:
https://www.stillhousepress.org/stillhouse-store/tell-me-yours-ill-tell-you-mine
Kristina Ten’s stories appear in McSweeney's, Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, We're Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction, Nightmare, Lightspeed, Uncanny, and elsewhere. She is the winner of the McSweeney's Stephen Dixon Award for Short Fiction, the Subjective Chaos Kind of Award, and the F(r)iction Writing Contest. She has been a finalist for both the Shirley Jackson and Locus Awards. A graduate of Clarion West and the University of Colorado Boulder's MFA program in fiction, she was also a 2024 Ragdale writer-in-residence. Tell Me Yours, I’ll Tell You Mine is her debut collection.
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STILLHOUSE PRESS is an independent book publisher based in Northern Virginia. We publish surprising, gutsy fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that can’t or doesn’t want to find a home in big publishing. We are drawn to the strange, the unconventional, the transcendent, the risky. By way of our relationship with George Mason University’s MFA, MA, BFA, and BA programs, we aim to provide educational opportunity through applied experience in the art of craft publishing – student staff are responsible for acquiring, producing, and marketing work from independent authors in the course of their professional education, allowing them to forge lasting professional relationships and step out with confidence into the greater literary community.
