The award-winning debut Sometimes Creek now available from Cornerstone Press

“I love these stories! Perfect portraits of perfectly imperfect people.”

—Amber Sparks, author of And I Do Not Forgive You

“These are stories of real life in all its strange wonder and quiet magic."

—Kimberly King Parsons, National Book Award Finalist, author of Black Light

"Hardscrabble and tender, these seventeen story gems gleam in Midwestern dust.”
—Amy Cipolla Barnes, author of Mother Figures, Ambrotypes, and Child Craft

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Butts in Chairs 18 January 2024 — Works Cited

Steve lives in Wisconsin with his wife, three boys, and one dog.

Steve gets up on Monday morning and goes to bed later that day on Saturday night.

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What Steve is reading now. (And other things.)

“Haunted and unsettling, but somehow normal, Sometimes Creek is a virtuoso necromancy of people turned inside out and then folded back to a reality that we somehow recognize. Fox’s world, gently strange and skewed on the page, is a place
Thanks for making me look good, @ember_and_bean_roasting
In-line-at-the-pharmacy reading: Christmas Days, 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days by Jeanette Winterson. Includes recipes!
Sunday morning reading. The Thin Place, Kathryn Davis. “Davis, God bless her, assumes her readers are intelligent people who are interested in what they’re reading.” — Ann Patchett
A ray gothic sunlight comes your way in January: “By turns moving and funny and gothic, and always compelling, Sometimes Creek is a collection to savor." @kdfish1 author of Wild Life: Collected Works”
Holiday reading. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum, published 1900.
Cursed Bunny, Bora Chung. Translated by Anton Hur. “They were always ready to wage another war.” —Ruler of the Wind and Sands
Book Mail that jukes and jives: Kind of Blue, by Christopher Chambers. “These are stories that celebrate the extraordinary nature of our ordinary lives.” — B J Hollers
You know what to do.
Order now. Don’t wait for the movie.
Tonight’s in-line-at-the-CVS reading - The Pallbearers Club, @paulgtremblay. The pharmacy. Always a good place to laugh out loud.
The question comes from a void: “How many times can you kill a ghost?” Order your copy now and find out in the story that inspired the cover design by @cornerstone.press, “The Butcher’s Ghost.” #amwritingfiction #amwrite