A door-to-door salesman’s visit shows Carol a new side of her mother and threatens the security they both had taken for granted; a woman finds out what happens when we’re ’too busy to die’; a woman in her fifties celebrates her newly augmented body parts; four friends try to breech a chasm in their friendship by planning a reunion; and a researcher examines his relationship to creativity in a world where it has been deemed a mental illness. Carefully crafted, surprising, and humane, the stories in Kim Suhr’s Close Call unveil emotion in tight spaces, hearts in turmoil, and the searching soul of the Midwest.
Innehållsförteckning
Signs
Jewel Tea
Latent
Numbered Days
Only One
Pay Phone
Pretty People
Blank
Play-School
Rink Rat
The Dip
Between Us and Our Friend
Ode to My Boobs
No Politics
Prayer Bank of America
In Memoriam
Unauthorized
Eradicated
Eradicated
Acknowledgments