Uncommon & Other Stories - Cass, William

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Résumé :
The broad range of characters in William Cass's moving second short story collection, Uncommon & Other Stories, all share a fascination with right action-how we know it, when we know it, and what that knowledge asks of us-in real time or in retrospect. Cass's stories are deeply rooted in the particularities of daily life and of nature-whether how to run a small inn in Arizona, harvest hay in Montana, mend an old woman's decaying picket fence, feed oneself through a stomach tube, teach an abandoned child how to garden, rob your neighbors' vacation homes. Even in regret, there is a bracing affirmation, however delayed, that other choices were possible, and that we are graced by this knowledge, however uncomfortable it may also be. As one narrator explains, Now as I enter this final chapter of life, I'm struck at how much of it has been made up of encounters and events like those-many random and seemingly small, some involving choices or control and others not-and how their meaning remains mysterious, indelible, confounding, fervent....

Biographie:
William Cass has had over 280 short stories accepted for publication in a variety of literary magazines and anthologies such as december, Briar Cliff Review, and Zone 3. He has won writing contests at Terrain.org and The Examined Life Journal, been a nominee for both Best Small Fictions and Best of the Net anthologies, and has also received four Pushcart Prize nominations. His first short story collection, Something Like Hope & Other Stories, was published by Wising Up Press in 2020. He lives in San Diego, California....

Sommaire:
William Cass has had over 350 short stories appear in a variety ofliterary magazines and anthologies such as december, Briar Cliff Review, andZone 3. He has won writing contests at Terrain.org and The Examined LifeJournal, been a nominee for both Best Small Fictions and Best of the Netanthologies, and has received six Pushcart Prize nominations. His earliershort story collections, Something Like Hope & Other Stories and Uncommon& Other Stories, were also published by Wising Up Press. He lives in San Diego, California....