Gary Fincke
Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Prize for short fiction, Gary Fincke is the author of many books, including the poetry collection Standing Around the Heart (Arkansas) and the short story collections Sorry I Worried You and The Stone Children, both published by the University of Missouri Press. He currently directs the Writers Institute at Susquehanna University, where he holds a distinguished chair.
Reading List
Things that Fall from the Sky
Rocks From a freeway overpass in Central Pennsylvania, four teenage boys fling rocks at traffic passing beneath them along Route 80. One misses hitting anything but the highway. One nearly the size of a bowling ball bounces off the cab …
The Face-Blind
1 Once, discovering a crying child in a Pittsburgh department store, I knelt to ask that girl the lost and found questions, her name, her address, and who had mislaid her in Gimbel’s, a store that featured thirteen floors of …
After the Three-Moon Era
[audio:http://shanendoah.wpenginepowered.com/612/files/2011/07/Gary-Fincke-VO-Final.mp3|titles=After the Three-Moon Era] 1 The dozen fetuses of the sand shark feed on each other until only one is left to be born. When I visit, my father, nearing ninety, sings hymns aloud, tells me he wakes each morning …