The Sordid Landscapes & Surprises of Two New Fiction Collections
There's good reason to suspect that two short story collections nestled in Appalachia and rural Southern Indiana and written by male thirty-somethings will surely include plenty of spilt bourbon, calloused fists cracking bloodied skulls, lustful and quick sex, guns within arm's reach, and enough guilt and rage to fuel many haunted lifetimes. Charles Dodd White's Sinners of Sanction County and Frank Bill's Crimes in Southern Indiana could be literary neighbors, but it's doubtful these characters would ever cross paths in a real or imagined life.
