title: Viral: Stories
author:  Emily Mitchell 
description: "The best stories here push toward real heartbreak." <b>-Manuel Gonzales, <i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b><br /><br />"Exceptionally readable...A rich collection that takes the familiar obsessions of love and loneliness and views them from uncanny angles in ways that are magical, cutting, and intensely recognizable." -<b><i>Kirkus Reviews </i>(Starred Review)</b><br /><br />"Sometimes offbeat, sometimes lightly searing, but mostly both." <b>-<i>Library Journal, </i>Top Stories for Spring/Summer: 12 New Collections from Writers to Watch</b> <br /><br />"Appealing intimacy and poignancy" <i><b>-Publisher's Weekly</b></i><br /><br />"Magic lurks in the background of some of these stories, transforming the everyday into something that is just a little bit stranger. It would be hard not to enjoy this collection from Mitchell-just watch out for that robotic spider." <b>-Elizabeth Rowe, <i><strong>Bookish</strong></i></b><i><strong></strong></i><strong><br /><br />Emily Mitchell's remarkable, innovative stories run the gamut of human experience - there are young lovers and old haters, there is laugh-out-loud funny stuff and melancholy reflection, straightforward plots and curvy free association. In short, this is a many-tentacled book of great variety, and it's exciting to see it unleashed upon the world. <b>(Dan Chaon, author of <i>Stay Awake and <i>Await Your Reply)</i></i></b><em> </em><br /><br />Binding together and moving through this delectable collection there's a mystery, the one that makes you keep turning the pages, its insistent heartbeat that of the beloved, the forever lost, the world you thought you knew, whatever is always waiting for you just around the bend. <b>(Kathryn Davis, author of <i>Duplex and </i></b></strong><b><i><em><strong>Versailles)</strong></em></i></b><em><strong>
  						    	
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  # Noah Lyons is My Movie Star Boyfriend
  
  
  ## Rumors and Lies at Evermore High #4
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Emily Lowry
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Cover Photography by Oleg Baliuk via Canva Pro
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## [Eleventh Avenue Publishing](http://eleventhavenuepublishing.com)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # GET TWO FREE SHORT STORIES
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  # Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  1\. [Sofia](part0003_split_000.html#2RHM0-5ad733d4bef74c4fb98ed5b6fcfa5776