The seventeen unrelenting stories in Steve Fox’s debut story collection, Sometimes Creek, traverse a sub-zero trail of plausible magic and grit from a kaleidoscope of broken ice at a hockey rink in Wisconsin that coils through haunted rivers and around dangling legs of jamón serrano in sweltering Spanish bars and back again to a place where Kafka and Carver meet up on the page. Fox’s clean prose takes you by the hand and weaves a tapestry of tenderness, dissonance, indifference, dystopia, and charm into that gauzy space that collectively takes shape in your hands as Sometimes Creek.
Tabella dei contenuti
Stories
Exile 1
Randy Koenig’s Very Large Mouse 25
Larmet Lunker 35
little blind flying mice 43
Boydlehook 61
The Butcher’s Ghost 63
Yard Mary 75
Oliebollen Destiny 91
Everyone Is Dead 109
Goat Milk 125
Unresolved 133
Orange Tree Dog 141
I Prefer You in Spanish 157
Dumplings 169
You’re Soaking In It 173
Then It Would Be Raining 185
Sometimes Creek 203
Acknowledgments 221
Circa l’autore
Steve Fox is the winner of the Rick Bass Montana Prize for Fiction, The Great Midwest Writing Contest, the Jade Ring Award, and a Midwestern Gothic Summer Flash Contest. His fiction has appeared in New Ohio Review, Orca, a Literary Journal, Midwest Review, Midwestern Gothic, Wisconsin People & Ideas, Whitefish Review, and others. He holds a Master of Arts in Spanish from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and has lived and worked in four continents. Steve now resides in his home state of Wisconsin with his wife, Stephanie, three boys, and one dog.
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