Dancing at the Gold Monkey

Winner of the 2011 Leapfrog Fiction Contest.

"Renders transient moments of great beauty, to reveal the way we might transcend sorrow by our unwavering attention to exquisite detail and the mystery of creation."—Melanie Rae Thon

"Time jumps in this accomplished story cycle, as does the boundary betwixt reality and dream, memory and imagination. . . . And war, as it will, soaks all. Learst writes with...