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Distinctive stories, culled from the
nation’s best literary journals and magazines over the
previous three years. The stories create a provocative
conversation about the way life is lived now in the Southwest
and how our increasingly homogeneous culture is still
powerfully shaped by the history, environment, and mythology
of place.
— K.L. Cook, author of the novel, The Girl from Charnelle |
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Buffalo Cactus and Other New Stories from the SouthwestEdited by
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Forty Days in the Desert
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t’s
raining sand. Fine, warm, flaxen sand. It drifts down
like powdered sugar and dusts the trees and lawn
furniture. No breeze distracts this sand from its sharp
incline, straight down. It trails away skyward, a faint
yellow smudge in a cloudless expanse. Such an apparition
hardly gathers any attention for hours. No one seems to
notice the slow buildup of grit, a grainy patina on what
many neighbors already consider an eyesore. The mounds
of tires, the tattered lawn furniture, the junked cars,
the mailbox crafted from an engine block. Somehow a
dusting of sand makes this ramshackle ranch house on an
unpaved road in an unincorporated expanse seem staged
and muted—as if our lens is smudged
with a bit of white lithium grease. The sand goes
unnoticed. It is, admittedly, a dusty place.
Buffalo
Cactus and Other New Stories from the Southwest Stories by:
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