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… magazine and peers down at the puzzle. “Ergo,” she says and points at twenty-​seven down. “Ramrod,” she says and points … Felix would stop believing the boy was his. Felix is a comedian, though he hasn’t told a joke onstage in almost a … his mother “sexless” to a group of his cigar-​smoking buddies, a word his father would pretend to not recognize when …

… why the title of the story collection, This Close, did not come from the title of one of the stories? I can tell you a … in a book. It must be much more confusing now, with so many websites and bloggers asking for books. It might be very … I write what I am interested in, and hope it will find an audience. I don’t know that it would make a lot of sense to do …

… Country Music The man was a newcomer to Sally’s Place, barefooted in his low-quarter shoes, … customer wanted to know. “I remember the night old Patsy died and exactly where I was,” the man answered instead, … were unbuttoned showing all these chains and Catholic medals on his chest. And when Gene sang Be-Bop-A-Lula , that …

… the darling sparrows chirping for their lives. Somebody had died. Somebody was not out there in the yellow fields, …

… chair, having never told a living soul about her boy who died as she, for the first time, holds him. 2 Look, … before he’d ride full-price to heaven. 9 How does the boy become the man lolling on a gurney? How could the young nurse … 10 Because we are so far away the zippered strands of DNA compose themselves like stalks in a far cornfield, or like …