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Pete Hsu My upcoming short story collection began in 2015 with a draft of a novel that was ultimately set aside, but one chapter from the manuscript stood out …moreMy upcoming short story collection began in 2015 with a draft of a novel that was ultimately set aside, but one chapter from the manuscript stood out and eventually became the short story "A Penny Short," which is about a down-and-out recent college grad, sitting at a penny slot machine while trying to hide from her friends. From there on out, I began to write more stories about (mostly young) people who were facing life-changing moments from which their old lives could never be recuperated. (less)
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“My main skills are talking and cooking biscuits,' Augustus said. 'And getting drunk on the porch.”
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“He had known several men who blew their heads off, and he had pondered it much. It seemed to him it was probably because they could not take enough happiness just from the sky and the moon to carry them over the low feelings that came to all men.”
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“Live through it," Call said. "That's all we can do.”
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“It's like I told you last night son. The earth is mostly just a boneyard. But pretty in the sunlight, he added”
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“I'm sure partial to the evening,' Augustus said. 'The evening and the morning. If we just didn't have to have the rest of the dern day I'd be a lot happier.”
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