One of the most original and intelligent writers publishing in the indie lit world today, William Walsh impresses again with this collection of odd/funny/sad/surprising stories about the citizens of Ampersand, Mass. in all their flawed and compelling humanity. Walsh’s stories are both innovative and deeply moving. A rare and brilliant combination.

— Kathy Fish, author of Tenderoni

Ampersand, Mass. is a glorious and ripe bruise. Walsh’s stories sneak, peer through curtains – there is a town here, inside of his words, and it is shaking us. Ampersand, Mass. should be ingested whole, deeply. These are characters to haunt us from within.

— J. A. Tyler, author of A Man of Glass & All the Ways We Have Failed

William Walsh is the author of Pathologies, Questionstruck (both from Keyhole Press) and Without Wax: A Documentary Novel (Casperian Books). His stories and texts have appeared in Annalemma, Artifice, Caketrain, Quick Fiction, Rosebud, New York Tyrant, Lit, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Juked, The &Now Anthology: Best of Innovative Writing,and Dzanc Best of the Web 2010.