The Cobra and the Key adaptive kitchen tools including their potential for use

including their potential for use in pest management and as hardy lawn replacements

where even in midsummer

commemorates the life of a woman vanished

accompanied by stories from those who partake

providing warmth

The Cobra and the Key adaptive kitchen tools including their potential for use"The Cobra and the Key is a funny and charming satire of writing advice and the people who give it." The Paris Review Sam Shelstad's brilliantly funny, slightly unhinged creative writing guide is How Fiction Works by James Wood meets Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov. To the untrained eye, Sam Shelstad may look a lot like a Value Village cashier who shares an apartment with his Uncle Herman and has just emerged from a failed relationship with a woman