Straight Up and No Sky There by Stephanie Dickinson

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Straight Up and No Sky There by Stephanie Dickinson

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Straight Up and No Sky There is a collection of eleven stories that speaks to the devolution of culture in the 21st century. An underage teen is stranded after a night of clubbing, a runaway finds herself at a Texas cockfight, a Vietnamese refugee struggles in the floodwaters of Katrina, a disabled female veteran of Iraq reconnects with her high school sweetheart, a cat narrates his escape from a gang of kids who mean him great harm, a barmaid enters into a suicide pact with her husband who has just returned from Afghanistan, a girl flees her polygamous marriage. Stephanie Dickinson sets characters who desperately crave transcendence into motion in millennial America.

Title: Straight Up & No Sky There
ISBN: 9780980221183
Author: Stephanie Dickinson
Publisher: Rain Mountain Press
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soft cover/ 186 pages/ 6 x 9/ trade
About the Author:
Stephanie Dickinson (www.stephaniedickinson.net) has lived in Iowa, Wyoming, Texas, Louisiana and now in New York. Her work appears in Dirty Goat, Mudfish, Stone Canoe, Hotel Amerika, Gargoyle, Water-Stone, Oleander Review, Calyx, and Fourteen Hills, among others. Her novel Half Girl, winner of the Hackney Award (Birmingham-Southern) is published by Spuyten Duyvil. Road of Five Churches (stories) and Corn Goddess (poems) are available from Rain Mountain Press. She received a 2006 New York Foundation for the Arts grant. Her stories have been reprinted in Best American Nonrequired Reading 2005, New Stories from the South, The Year's Best, 2008 and 2009 She shares a five flight East Village walkup with poet Rob Cook and the cats, Vallejo and Sally Joy.

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