The Building of Quality

by C.M. Mayo

A tornado deposits what may or may not be a temple in John and jane Smith's backyard. The novelesque short story from the Kenyon Review: a later story by C.M. Mayo, popular writing workshop leader and author of Sky Over El Nido, winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. Includes author bio and a page of resource links for short story writers.

25 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 27, 2011

About the author

C.M. Mayo is the author of The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire , as well as the widely-lauded travel memoir, Miraculous Air: Journey of a Thousand Miles through Baja California, the Other Mexico , and Sky Over El Nido , which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. She is also the editor of Mexico: A Traveler's Literary Companion , which was published by Whereabouts Press in March 2006.