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Walking on Water gathers together an engaging and compellingcollection of short stories by 24 of the many talented writers to havegraduated from The University of Alabamas Program in Creative Writingover the past 20 years. Editor Allen Wier, who taught fiction writingat Alabama from 1980 to 1994, offers us in this celebration of writinga variety of fictional voices that represent widely differingsensibilities and visions. Some stories are by writers whose literarycareers are well begun, while others appear here in print for the firsttime. Wier named the collection after the story by Kim Trevathan, thisauthors first published fiction, because walkingon water is such an apt figure for what the fiction writer attemptswith each new storys beginning.Walking on Water is an outstanding anthology, surprising in the richvariety of its voices and stances, extraordinary in the sustained qualityof all of the 24 stories.
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Copyright 1996 The University of Alabama Press Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0380 All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America
The paper on which this book is printed meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Science-Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984.
Cover art, original watercolor, Walking on Water, by Donnie Wier. Reproduced by permission.
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Walking on water, and other stories / edited and with an intro duction by Allen Wier. p. cm. ISBN 0-8173-0785-0 (alk. paper) 1. Short stories, AmericanAlabama. I. Wier, Allen PS558.A5W35 1996 813'.01089761dc20 095-12753 CIP
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Page v
For Don F. Hendrie Jr 19421995
At the time this book was going into production, fiction writer and teacher Don Hendrie Jr died of a heart attack in Exeter, New Hampshire. "Hendrie" was one of my closest friends. For ten of the fourteen years that I taught at the University of Alabama he was my colleague, and daily contact with him was one of the pleasures of my life in those days. He was an essential ingredient in the success of Alabama's Master of Fine Arts program. Most of the writers who have stories here were his students and friends. I count Hendrie's friendship among my blessings and dedicate Walking on Water to his memory. Allen Wier
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Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
Allen Wier
1
Fighting
Michael Alley
5
Duck Hunting
Yesim Atil
15
Epilogue
David Borofka
17
The Taming Power of the Small
Will Blythe
28
Hma, My Hma
Mathew Chacko
40
Foley's Escape Story
Tom Chiarella
49
Mississinewa
Cathy Day
57
Prance Williams Swims Again
Matt Devens
64
Charlotte
Tony Earley
71
Forced Landing
Jennifer Fremlin
83
Wau-Ban-See
Ashley L. Gibson
95
Crawford and Luster's Story
Richard Giles
109
Howard in the Roses
Dev Hathaway
121
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What Comes Next
Laura Hendrie
124
The Twin
J. R. Jones
138
Won't Nobody Ever Love You Like Your Daddy Does
Nanci Kincaid
150
Stairsteps
Celia Malone Kingsbury
164
Hardware Man
Tim Parrish
176
The Wunderkind
Johnny Payne
189
In the MacAdams' Swimming Pool
Nicola Schmidt
196
Sipsey's Woods
Ronald Sielinski
201
Walking on Water
Kim Trevathan
209
Carl's Outside
Brad Watson
218
Stoner's Room
Hubert Whitlow
227
Contributors
239
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Acknowledgments
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