The Computer Room

The Computer Room

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The Computer Room, Emma Ensley's stunning debut collection of short stories, captures messy, heartfelt, and often surreal moments of coming of age in small-town America in the early days of the internet. 

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Through 12 unforgettable stories, Ensley brings to life the joys, fears, and complexities of adolescence and early adulthood—where first loves, friendships, and the search for identity collide with messy bedrooms, teenage rebellion, and the quiet hum of the family computer.

 Ensley’s sharp, heartfelt writing makes you laugh, reflect, and feel connected to those fleeting moments of youth when everything seemed both endlessly possible and impossibly confusing.

Emma Ensley is a fiction writer, artist, and graphic designer living in Asheville, North Carolina. She grew up in North Georgia and on the internet, and considers both places equally influential to her work. Her short fiction has appeared in Joyland, The Quarterless Review, and Peach Mag.

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What Others Are Saying

Hear what writers and readers think of Emma Ensley's The Computer Room.
Grace Ezra, Editor-in-Chief of Hood of Bone Review

These twelve short stories have made me more homesick than I’ve been in years. For Bojangles, old babysitting gigs, and weekend drives with my very own red-headed crush on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Ensley’s debut is self-assured; a sudden squall of warm air blowing open the screen-door of a brief and bygone southern adolescence. With dual perfect attention to the Carolina landscape and Tumblr 90s nostalgia, The Computer Room puts forward a glittering mosaic portrait of small-town girlhood. With a weird and tender imagination on full display, Ensley emerges right on time. The ease of her storytelling is exuberant. 

Caroline Rayner, author of THE MOAN WILDS

In these stories, I get to hang out in the glow of being young in the South at the dawn of being online, an experience deep in my bones that these stories shake back to the surface. Reading The Computer Room, I feel like anything could happen, which is magical, because it might be sweet, or it might be devastating, or it might be messier and more beautiful than anything I could ever imagine, and I won’t know until my screen lights up, or the sky from the parking lot at Sonic fills up with stars. I’m obsessed.

Lorg, musician (SALES, Lorg)

Laughing my ass off, and shedding a tear at this teenage fever dream. The Computer Room is a vivid recollection of the most haunting period of my life.

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