Pub Date: July 15th, 2011
Format: Paperback
Pages: 184
Trim Size: 5.5″ x 7.75″
ISBN: 978–0–983547–80–8
Price: $14

In its most soulful incarnation, what actually transpires in the vastness of the northern plains? The forty-one short stories gathered for this collection, each less than 1,200 words, form a wide-rangingand occasionally confounding answer to this question. It’s the middle of a long, hallucinatory winter, and you’re writing a story. Anything can happen. Then it does. These are stories of loneliness, betrayal, ghosts, lost dogs, fantastic job applicants and men who want to light each other on fire. The thirty-nine authors explore the strobe-flash intensity of sudden fiction, beginning in medias res and ending at the edge of today’s cliff. It’s quite probably the feel-good book of the season, right down to the hummingbird cover. Contributors include Alan Davis, Dessa Wander, Diane Glancy, Jay Orff, Lon Otto, Pat Cumbie, Ray Gonzalez, Sun Yung Shin, and many more.

Stories by Alan Davis, Andrea Worth, Bayard Godsave, C.J. Hribal, Cezarija Abartis, Christopher Jones, Christy Namee Erickson, Cindra Halm, Danielle Miller, David Bengston, Dessa Wander, Diane Glancy, Edward Micius, Ellen Dworsky, Emily Graves, Hanna Shapard, Jarda Cervenka, Jay Orff, Jessy Greene, K.C. Hanson, Kathryn Knudson, Kevin Carollo, Kim Teeple, Lon Otto, Martin Brick, Maureen Aitken, Melanie Richards, Nick Healy, Pat Cumbie, Patricia Zontelli, Patrick Hueller, Ray Gonzalez, Ronald Wallace, Shana Youngdahl, Sigrid Tornquist, Sue Taylor, Sun Yung Shin, Suzanne Nielsen, Tony Rauch.

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