Ecstatic Days, Gone For a Week: What's Your Most Surprising Read?

(Two of the texts we read in acquiring stories for our The Weird antho–now coming out in 2011. Yes, that's right–Jazz and Palm Wine is an antho of fiction from African nation writers, mostly non-genre, that has a spaceship on the cover! The Japanese antho is an awesome collection from the University of Hawaii Press–their books are highly recommended.)

I need a week off of the internet. Writing fiction is deeply immersive, and the computer and smart phone are fragmenting me too much. So, I'm o...