Borrowed Hearts New and Selected Stories

Featuring 11 never-before-published works, this collection of the author's short stories spotlights his dark, sardonic, and often hilarious writing.

RICK DEMARINIS is the author of several novels and collections of short fiction. His stories have appeared in Harper's, Antaeus, Story, Epoch, and many others. In 1990 he received a Literature Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.

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James Welch

UNDER THE WHEAT (1986)

Under the Wheat

3

(9)

Billy Ducks Among the Paraohs

12

(15)

Life Between Meals

27

(10)

The Smile of a Turtle

37

(5)

Weeds

42

(13)

THE COMING TRIUMPH OF THE FREE WORLD (1988)

The Handgun

55

(7)

disneyland

62

(19)

Romance: A Prose Villanelle

81

(12)

Your Story

93

(9)

Pagans

102

(5)

Your Burden Is Lifted, Love Returns

107

(6)

Medicine Man

113

(22)

THE VOICE OF AMERICA (1991)

Safe Forever

135

(14)

Desert Places

149

(9)

Paraiso: An Elegy

158

(9)

An Airman's Goodbye

167

(12)

Aliens

179

(10)

Horizontal Snow

189

(9)

Wilderness

198

(13)

The Voice of America

211

(5)

Insulation

216

(9)

BORROWED HEARTS (New Stories)

Borrowed Hearts

225

(6)

A Romantic Interlude

231

(7)

Experience

238

(10)

Fault Lines

248

(7)

Feet

255

(6)

Hormone X

261

(8)

Novias

269

(8)

On the Lam

277

(10)

Sieze the Day

287

(8)

The Boys We Were, The Men We Became

295

(21)

The Singular We

316

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Borrowed Hearts New and Selected Stories

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