The Dugans are a scrappy, dysfunctional family living in upstate New York that's getting along okay until the mother walks out one day, leaving five undisciplined kids and an alcoholic, unemployed husband behind. In these twelve stories, we find out how the Dugan clan learns to get along without her.
Contents
Our Love Could Light The World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
And To The Ones Left Behind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Just Another Lost Soul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Trouble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
A Simple Theory of Heartache . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Into My Loving Arms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Maggie’s Dare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
The Concept of Kindness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
The Sorrow of The Country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
The Ordeal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
The Caregiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Lavinia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Anne Leigh Parrish’s debut story collection,
All The Roads That Lead From Home, won the 2012 Independent Publisher Book Awards silver medal for best short story fiction. Her work can be found or is forthcoming in
The Virginia Quarterly Review, Clackamas Literary Review,among other publications. She is the fiction editor for
Eclectica Magazine. She lives in Seattle. To learn more, visit her at
www.anneleighparrish.com.
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