Hello, Horse (Kemick Richard Kelly)(Paperback)

Taut, stylish stories take on big moral questions from surprising perspectives.A teenager's job mucking stalls at a dog track takes a strange turn when his co-worker finds a new religion at odds with winning streaks. Two brothers set out in search of fame in the icy waters of a subarctic lake. A pregnant high school student tries to make rent by winning the Unitarian Church's Annual Young Writer's Short Story Competition ("No foul or off-putting language" permitted). An incarcerated man considers the nature of choice between shifts with his fellow inmates at Nations at War, the ultimate live-action experience for tourists eager to learn about the Canadian Civil War--nevermind the fact that there was no such war when the fake blood spatters so dramatically. Spanning states and provinces, and featuring an apocalypse, a coterie of ghosts, nuns on ice, and an
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