“…a second chance is the sweetest blessing any of us can hope for.”
Contents
Safe Forever, from Story
Desert Place, from Epoch
Paraiso: An Elegy, from The Georgia Review
God Bless America
An Airman’s Goodbye, from The Paris Review
Aliens, from Antioch Review
Horizontal Snow, from Story
Fidelity
Infidelity
The Whitened Man, from Vox
Wilderness, from Epoc
The Voice of America, from Cutbank
Insulation, from Harper’s Magazine
Her Alabaster Skin
Rudderless Fiction: Lesson 1 (A Correspondence Course), from Harper’s Magazine
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How people could lie to themselves,
and believe it,
was the miracle of human life as far as I was concerned.
(from “The Voice of America”, p. 177)
He’s on a mission of wild truth-seeking.
He thinks he can solve his life if he keeps telling it.
(from “Rudderless Fiction: Lesson 1”, p. 208)
A story should not mean; at best it should be meant.
(from “Rudderless Fiction: Lesson 1”, p. 213)
– Rick DeMarinis –
