Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil

Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil is a darkly imaginative and surreal debut by award-winning author Ananda Lima, exploring the boundaries between reality, storytelling, and the supernatural.

At a Halloween party in 1999, a writer sleeps with the devil, beginning a lifelong, haunting connection where she continues to write stories for him—tales that are both impossible and true. Set across eerie corners of the U.S. and Brazil, Lima’s stories blend the strange and the intimate, featuring bite-sized Americans in vending machines, ghosts of the living, and reflections on immigration, identity, ambition, and belonging.

Written with humor, wit, and lyrical imagination, the collection places Lima among the likes of Carmen Maria Machado and Ted Chiang, offering a powerful exploration of desire, culture, and the blurred lines between the real and the unreal.