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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 and poetry by:
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