Gingher captures both perspectives: teens rushing hopefully toward adulthood, their parents and older siblings looking back with a certain wistfulness... She remembers what it's like to be a teen-ager, and she makes us remember too- the restlessness ...
This extraordinary collection gathers short-short stories--none longer than 1,800 words--by some of North Carolina's best contemporary writers, including Doris Betts, Orson Scott Card, Fred Chappell, Sarah Dessen, Haven Kimmel, Robert Morgan, Lee Smi...
Some of us understand place in terms of family and community, landscape, or even the weather. For others, the idea of place becomes more distinct and particular: the sound of someone humming while washing dishes, the musical cadence of a mountain acc...