Jim Knipfel books

These Children Who Come at You with Knives, and Other Fairy Tales: Stories (2010)

A more cartoonish, less humane version of the George Saunders style, using a hammer rather than a sharp carving knife to destroy the miniatures after painstakingly creating them and imbuing them with pathos. I liked his first couple of fractured fairy tales (especially the ones with real morals),...