Bright shards of someplace else : stories /
McFawn, Monica.
Bright shards of someplace else : stories / by Monica McFawn. - 1 online resource (viii, 164 pages .) - Flannery O'Connor award for short fiction . - Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. .
Out of the mouths of babes -- Dead horse productions -- Key phrases -- Elegantly, in the least number of steps -- A country woman -- Line of questioning -- Improvisation -- The slide turned on end -- Ornament and crime -- Snippet and the rainbow bridge -- The Chautauqua sessions.
In the eleven kaleidoscopic stories that make up Bright Shards of Someplace Else, Monica McFawn traces the combustive, hilarious, and profound effects that occur when people misread the minds of others. The characters-an array of artists, scientists, songwriters, nannies, horse trainers, and poets-often try to pin down another's point of view, only to find that their own worldview is far from fixed. The characters in McFawn's stories long for and fear the encroachment of others. A young boy reduces his nanny's phone bill with a call, then convinces her he can solve her other problems. A man w.
English.
9780820347769 0820347760
F91021DC-61CC-42E7-A198-245D376D3C8A OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com 22573/ctt175vk1x JSTOR
Short stories, American.
Nouvelles américaines.
LITERARY CRITICISM--American--General.
FICTION--Short Stories (single author)
Short stories, American
Electronic books.
short stories.
Short stories
Short stories.
Nouvelles.
PS3613.C4397 / B75 2014
813/.6
Bright shards of someplace else : stories / by Monica McFawn. - 1 online resource (viii, 164 pages .) - Flannery O'Connor award for short fiction . - Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. .
Out of the mouths of babes -- Dead horse productions -- Key phrases -- Elegantly, in the least number of steps -- A country woman -- Line of questioning -- Improvisation -- The slide turned on end -- Ornament and crime -- Snippet and the rainbow bridge -- The Chautauqua sessions.
In the eleven kaleidoscopic stories that make up Bright Shards of Someplace Else, Monica McFawn traces the combustive, hilarious, and profound effects that occur when people misread the minds of others. The characters-an array of artists, scientists, songwriters, nannies, horse trainers, and poets-often try to pin down another's point of view, only to find that their own worldview is far from fixed. The characters in McFawn's stories long for and fear the encroachment of others. A young boy reduces his nanny's phone bill with a call, then convinces her he can solve her other problems. A man w.
English.
9780820347769 0820347760
F91021DC-61CC-42E7-A198-245D376D3C8A OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com 22573/ctt175vk1x JSTOR
Short stories, American.
Nouvelles américaines.
LITERARY CRITICISM--American--General.
FICTION--Short Stories (single author)
Short stories, American
Electronic books.
short stories.
Short stories
Short stories.
Nouvelles.
PS3613.C4397 / B75 2014
813/.6