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Fires of Our Choosing
by Eugene Cross
Published by Dzanc Books
196p, b&w, softcover, 5.5"x8.5"
$15.95
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"Eugene Cross captures much of his generation's fears and excitements
with a collection of realistic stories that borders on darkness at
times. His is a voice combining humor and pathos with an edginess
creating fresh new stories that are being published in great literary
journals regularly.
A boy acts out at the death of his father and abandonment by his
brother through a savage playground beating; a young man confronts his
own troubled history when asked to hire on his girlfriend's strung-out
brother in an attempt to keep him out of prison; a teenage babysitter
works through a scorching-hot summer afternoon that will prove to alter
her life forever; a grieving widower finds comfort in the unlikeliest
of places, a recently-built casino; an itinerant farm worker visits the
same former lover in South Dakota year after year while following the
Harvest north; two friends search for excuses and fail to claim
responsibility for their own decisions after one loses his father, and
the other's house burns to the ground; and a taxidermist falls in love
with the ex-wife of his high school bully and tries to convince her to
marry him despite her son who seems to share his father's bullying
mentality."