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This second collection of short stories by David Jauss opens with an epigram from Milan Kundera that sets the stage for many of the characters in Black Maps: It takes so little ... for a person to cross the border beyond which everything loses meaning. Among those for whom all meaning is lost is the man in Torque who gives up his wife and a child for the sake of an odd quest to build a limousine. Or the son in Glossolalia whose father has suffered a nervous breakdown. The people here bear the weight of their troubles uneasily, but with a certain world-weary acceptance.
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This book is the winner of the Associated Writing Programs 1995 Award in Short Fiction. AWP is a national, nonprofit organization dedicated to serving American letters, writers, and programs of writing. AWP's headquarters are at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia.
Copyright 1996 by David Jauss All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America LC 95-47635 ISBN 1-55849-033-7 Set in Adobe Minion by Keystone Typesetting, Inc. Printed and bound by Thomson Shore, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Jauss, David. Black maps / David Jauss. p. cm. ISBN 1-55849-033-7 (cloth :alk. paper) 1. Manners and customsFiction. I. Title. PS3560.A8B57 1996 813'.54dc2095-47635 CIP
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Page v
For my mother and father
Page vii
It takes so little, so infinitely little, for a person to cross the border beyond which everything loses meaning: love, convictions, faith, history. Human lifeand herein lies its secrettakes place in the immediate proximity of that border, even in direct contact with it; it is not miles away, but a fraction of an inch. MILAN KUNDERA
Three things about the border are known: It's real, it doesn't exist, it's on all the black maps. JAMES GALVIN
Page ix
Acknowledgments
Earlier versions of these stories appeared in the following magazines: "Torque" in North-west Review, "Freeze" in New England Review, ''Beautiful Ohio" in Prairie Schooner (reprinted by permission of the University of Nebraska Press; copyright 1989 University of Nebraska Press), "The Bigs" in The Iowa Review, "Firelight'' in Short Story, "Brutality" in Great Stream Review, "The Late Man" in Descant, "Rainier" in StoryQuarterly, and "Glossolalia" in Shenandoah.
"Freeze" also appeared in The Pushcart Prize XIV: Best of the Small Presses, 19891990, and "Glossolalia" was included in Best American Short Stories 1991 and The Pushcart Prize XVI: Best of the Small Presses, 19911992.
I am grateful to the National Endowment for the Arts and the Arkansas Arts Council for fellowships that enabled me to write several of these stories. My thanks also to Ralph Burns, Fred Busch, Phil Dacey, John Roder, Dave Wojahn, Deb Wylder, Edith Wylder, and, especially, James Hannah and Dennis Vannatta.
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Contents
Torque
1
Freeze
16
Beautiful Ohio
34
The Bigs
47
Firelight
56
Brutality
85
The Late Man
96
Rainier
109
Glossolalia
131
Page 1
Torque
The day after his wife left him, taking their three-year-old son with her, Larry Watkins took out his circular saw, attached the metal-cutting blade, and carefully sawed his 1974 Cadillac Fleet-wood in half. It was not an impulsive or crazy act, as his neighbors might have supposed. He had spent almost four hours the day before making the proper measurements, drawing the cutting line with a magic marker, and chaining one bumper to the garage wall and the other to the Chevy so the two halves wouldn't spring together when he cut the frame. And in a way, he had been planning this moment ever since 1985, when he came back to the U.S. after two years of guard duty and beer drinking for Uncle Sam in Germany. To celebrate their release from the service, he and his buddy Spence had rented a limousine for an hour and cruised around Virginia Beach, drinking Scotch from the limo's bar and looking at girls through the tinted glass. Spence was talking away about his plans: he was going to catch the next bus to Albany, marry his girl, and go to work in her father's office supply store. Larry hadn't given much thought to his future, so when Spence asked him what he was going to do when he got back to Minnesota,
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