The Distance Between Here and Elsewhere:
Three Stories
Nopalito, Texas—1965, 1985, 2005. An aging liquor store proprietor faces the confines of small-town life 5,000 miles from the one place that offered happiness. A young man evades attraction to his charismatic but erratic cousin. An elderly widower is beset by visits from the dead in the aftermath of a near-fatal heart attack. Albert Decker, Dusty Renner, Berndt Hoffman—each one faces a wordless question: how to live with an impossibility that cannot be changed.
Dialing the radio, I picked up pedal steel guitar, the ache of it thrumming with my hangover. It was like slipping into another skin. I wanted cold beer in long neck bottles dripping with condensation. I wanted a smoky dance floor, sweat at my armpits, and pool cues clicking.
Dusty Renner, in “Möbius Strip”
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Storylandia was published by Wapshott Press, defunct in the aftermath of the publisher’s death. Intermittently, Amazon lists used and “new” copies.
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