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Sheldon’s 2025 Year in Books
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Sheldon Lee Compton
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Brown Bottle
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The Same Terrible Storm
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2012
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5 editions
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Dysphoria: an Appalachian gothic
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2019
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Where Alligators Sleep
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2014
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Wrong Tree Review issue 1
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2010
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The Orchard Is Full of Sound: one author's connection with Breece D'J Pancake: a memoir
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SWAY: Stories
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The Collected Stories
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Oblivion Angels: a novel
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A True Story: A Novella
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My new short story collection ABSOLUTE INVENTION is out now and available from Secret History Books
It’s another story collection, my favorite kind of book all the way around.
My most recent book is the collection Absolute Invention. It falls along the same lines as my previous collection Where Alligators Sleep. Some fantastic stories, some surreal, some spending time in the realm of fabulism.
The book was published this spring by Secret History Books, a press headed up by the one and only Mike La
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“He's on the school bus and Uncle Wade is standing outside the window. The bus hasn't pulled out yet and Uncle Wade is punching the air and ducking his head and giving him a thumbs up sign and then a big smile. The big smile says do not worry. It says you can do this. ... His smile says a lot and so do his punching hands and his hooked thumbs, and before everything else it can possibly say, it says the thing Nick needs most. The big smile says I love you.”
― Brown Bottle
― Brown Bottle
“There were a lot of botched kills throughout the eastern part of Kentucky when the work fell outside his control. Six or seven years ago, a man from Perry County was shot point blank in the head and left for dead in the middle of downtown. Problem was, the bullet had traveled between the man's scalp and his skull halfway across his head and exited the same way it had entered on the other side. The whole thing had left him with only fingernail-sized contusions on both sides of his head. He identified the guy who shot him and saw him arrested and convicted of attempted murder.
Now, it's true that a situation like that was a rare one, but part of doing a job right was minimizing the chance for something to go wrong.”
― Brown Bottle
Now, it's true that a situation like that was a rare one, but part of doing a job right was minimizing the chance for something to go wrong.”
― Brown Bottle
“Tuck had always been made smaller made than Stan. Narrow shoulders, tiny hands and short fingers. Even as a young man his brown eyes were always watering like he'd been crying and his face never took hair well. What he had instead were four or five patches of hair that looked like a cluster of bee stingers popping straight out from his cheeks.”
― Brown Bottle
― Brown Bottle
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“Brown pulled the bag closer to his side. He had nothing but good memories from his time overseas. That's the truth nobody knew. Since coming home he'd been labeled a baby-killer and a murderer, and things had been bad enough for him and his family when he went into the military.”
― Brown Bottle
― Brown Bottle
“There were a lot of botched kills throughout the eastern part of Kentucky when the work fell outside his control. Six or seven years ago, a man from Perry County was shot point blank in the head and left for dead in the middle of downtown. Problem was, the bullet had traveled between the man's scalp and his skull halfway across his head and exited the same way it had entered on the other side. The whole thing had left him with only fingernail-sized contusions on both sides of his head. He identified the guy who shot him and saw him arrested and convicted of attempted murder.
Now, it's true that a situation like that was a rare one, but part of doing a job right was minimizing the chance for something to go wrong.”
― Brown Bottle
Now, it's true that a situation like that was a rare one, but part of doing a job right was minimizing the chance for something to go wrong.”
― Brown Bottle
“He's on the school bus and Uncle Wade is standing outside the window. The bus hasn't pulled out yet and Uncle Wade is punching the air and ducking his head and giving him a thumbs up sign and then a big smile. The big smile says do not worry. It says you can do this. ... His smile says a lot and so do his punching hands and his hooked thumbs, and before everything else it can possibly say, it says the thing Nick needs most. The big smile says I love you.”
― Brown Bottle
― Brown Bottle
“Tuck had always been made smaller made than Stan. Narrow shoulders, tiny hands and short fingers. Even as a young man his brown eyes were always watering like he'd been crying and his face never took hair well. What he had instead were four or five patches of hair that looked like a cluster of bee stingers popping straight out from his cheeks.”
― Brown Bottle
― Brown Bottle
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