LEADER 02922oam 22004574a 450 001 9910479897103321 005 20210112192345.0 010 $a0-8143-4589-1 035 $a(CKB)4100000007267911 035 $a(OCoLC)1078741333 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse68265 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5841433 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5841433 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007267911 100 $a20181210d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aStiff$fby Steve Hughes 210 1$aBaltimore, Maryland :$cProject Muse,$d2018 210 3$aBaltimore, Md. :$cProject MUSE, $d2018 210 4$dİ2018 215 $a1 online resource (1 PDF (173 pages).) 225 0 $aMade in Michigan writers series 311 $a0-8143-4588-3 327 $aStiff: Stories by Steve Hughes -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Lucky Fucking Day -- Only Wilma -- I Am Still Learning About the World -- Ripening -- Her Walls Not Mine -- When Drink, Drugs, and Floor Polish Steal Your Youth and Trash Your Woman -- Dexter's Song -- Part Plant, Part Animal, Part Insect -- New Phase -- The Perfect Song -- Forest Parker, Poet Laureate of Lumpkin Street -- Wood for Rhonda -- Bullets for Charlene -- God, That Kimchi! -- I Don't Feel Sorry For Mrs. Miller -- Ted and His Heartbeat -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author. 330 $aWith a hearty helping of Detroit grit, the stories in Stiff pay homage to a city turned upside down by economic abandonment. Steve Hughes pushes the boundaries of realism, creating situations that seem odd and otherworldly. In his Detroit, witches cast spells to improve their husbands, chickens grow from seeds, and house painters with anger management issues proclaim themselves poet laureates. The characters in Stiff are all searching for something in each other--a certain wholeness or understanding, a place to rest and call home. Hughes writes with great empathy about people who are struggling with their lives. In "Ripening," a man and woman in an illicit affair witness their genitals leaving their bodies for a rendezvous. In "Dexter's Song," a drug-addicted saxophone player meets a bored suburban woman who gives him her ex-boyfriend's sax, which unleashes a series of disasters but the instrument is so fine, so perfect, that when he holds it to his lips he can do no wrong. Readers of contemporary fiction will enjoy this inventive and evocative collection of stories. 410 0$aMade in Michigan writers series. 608 $aShort stories. 608 $aShort stories, American. 608 $aElectronic books. 676 $a813/.6 700 $aHughes$b Steve$0611924 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910479897103321 996 $aStiff$92474000 997 $aUNINA