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John S. Walker
Among the Least of These
She was the kind that would hang on, who had the faith of a mustard seed, but brimmed with a severe hope. His father, the pastor of a congregation of Swedish Presbyterians, had spent hours at her bedside when they believed the fever was finally going to take her.
Shimon Tanaka
The Suit
He had seen much of America--it was all an adventure--but the reigning irony seemed to be the way his world had shrunk down to where his life mostly consisted of his part-time job in the dining hall and the desk in his room.
Michael L. Guerra
Plush
This is the kind of intimate detail my father has shared with me over the years. Instead of telling me about his life, he tells me about the people he has encountered along the way.
Patrick Hicks
57 Gatwick
It started when the family of seat 18G wanted to know who sat in 18F. They wanted to send a sympathy card, which turned into a three-page letter, which turned into a phone call.
Kim Brooks
The Houseguest
Auer had tried to explain to her that there were things more important in life than a well-set table and sated babies warm in their beds, but it was 1938, and these were difficult arguments to make.
Rikki Clark
The Widower Garden
Irma and Orly moved into their house when Orly got work at the forge down the block. Even now, you can hear the rhythm of the hydraulic press ironing out the steel at the forge, and all seems right with the world.
Sean Padraic McCarthy
Preservation
Aidan hated leaving her there, seeing her face, pleading with him as he made his way to the door--Judas--but he didn t know what else to do; it was the only daycare even close to working within his budget.
Lisa Graley
Vandalism
There comes a time when you want only to sit on your porch, he told Glenn Turley. You want to think over things you've done or haven't done--not things you're planning to do.
Andrew Thomas Scott
A Shell of Blue Luminosity
Mr. Patel leaned down and said, "Daniel Megargel, we are very sorry for you." From beside him, Mrs. Patel said, "And for Angie." They left the car and walked back toward the office; they kept in step and close together, their shoulders touching.
Terrence Cheng
The Boy
His father was always looking for the next best thing, even though he had worked at the same restaurant ever since he could remember.
Barry Unsworth
Interview by Kevin Rabalais
Joseph Conrad had a wonderful sense of the scene, in which physical environment and the dramatic moment and the actual visual experience all fuse together into a wonderful, memorable scene that lives with you forever.
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About the Author:
John S. Walker's novella, "Days of Captivity," was published by the Texas Review. His work has also been nominated for The Best New American Voices Anthology. He resides in Cordova, Tennessee, and teaches at Crichton College.
Shimon Tanaka teaches at Stanford University, and a co-editor of a series of English-language textbooks in Japan. His fiction has previously appeared in Glimmer Train, the Missouri Review, the Gettysburg Review, and the anthology Best New American Voices.
Michael L. Guerra's work has appeared in Next Stop Hollywood: Short Stories Bound for the Screen. He teaches creative writing and literature at Portland State University and offers community writing workshops at guerram@mac.com.
Patrick Hicks is Writer-in-Residence at Augustana College. His poetry and nonfiction have appeared in Ploughshares, the Utne Reader, Commonweal, Indiana Review, Poetry East, and Nimrod. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and been a Visiting Fellow at Oxford.
Kim Brooks' stories have appeared in Glimmer Train, One Story, Epoch, the Missouri Review, Meridian, and Alaska Quarterly Review. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a recipient of a Michener-Copernicus fellowship. She lives in Chicago with her husband and son.
Rikki Clark has one dog, two birds, five cats, and one twelve-year-old daughter. She spent four years in the Army, fourteen years as a student, and has been married eighteen years. She teaches folklore, African-American literature, and American literature at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Sean Padraic McCarthy has had stories published in Hayden's Ferry Review, Another Chicago Magazine, Confrontation, Sou'wester, the Sewanee Review, Other Voices, the Evansville Review, Cadillac Cicatrix, and Paper Street. A graduate of the University of San Francisco with an MA in writing, he lives in Mansfield, Massachusetts with his wife and children.
Originally from Sod, West Virginia, Lisa Graley is a Lecturer in English and Humanities at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where she coordinates the Interdisciplinary Humanities Program.
Andrew Thomas Scott lives in San Francisco and arrived there by way of Portland, Oregon and Madison, Wisconsin.
Terrence Cheng is the author of two novels: Sons of Heaven (2002), set during the Tiananmen Square Massacre; and Deep in the Mountains (2007), an historical fiction about the great Chinese painter, Zhu Qizhan. Cheng received his MFA in Fiction from the University of Miami, Florida and teaches at Lehman College. Visit tcheng.net.
Barry Unsworth's fifteen novels include Song of the Kings, Losing Nelson, The Partnership, and The Ruby in Her Navel. His novel Sacred Hunger received the Booker Prize and two novels were short-listed for the Booker Prize: Pascali's Island and Morality Play.
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- PublisherGlimmer Train Press, Inc.
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 1595530215
- ISBN 13 9781595530219
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages250
- EditorLinda B. Swanson-Davies, Susan Burmeister-Brown
- IllustratorCover By Jane Zwinger
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