Fiction. Fifteen stories, at once playful and serious, simple and layered, familiar and not. Gertrude Stein and Buffy the Vampire Slayer track down the bridal party to save a Las Vegas wedding. An ambivalent geneticist disappears himself in Texas scrub country. A five-year-old in search of her lost mother walks a high-wire between her home and her lesbian neighbor's. These are stories about people yearning for connection—with each other, with themselves, with whatever lies beyond.

"You've never seen stories quite like Ron MacLean's, yet they enter your mind with an eerie familiarity, like thoughts or dreams you now realize you've been having for some time. His work is smart and elegant and spooky, and it pushes the boundaries of what a short story can be."—Ralph Lombreglia

Author City: Boston, MA USA

Ron MacLean's fiction has appeared in GQ, Greensboro Review, Prism International, Night Train and other quarterlies. He is a recipient of the Frederick Exley Award for Short Fiction and a Pushcart Prize nominee, and author of the novel BLUE WINNETKA SKIES. WHY THE LONG FACE?, a collection of stories, was published in fall 2008.

Reviews and Other Links
Carol Reid @ The Short Review
Janelle Adsit @ The Pedestal Magazine