num_pages: 162
description: Wings &amp; Other Things is a book of migrations. Its characters flutter and flap take off and land then take off again as they seek the places they belong. The characters in these short stories are caught in transition: a widow searching for a past self on an Impossible Blue coast lovers explaining to police and themselves why they're hiding in a Nebraska cornfield a teacher struggling to be understood on a flight from Chengdu a stranded artist riding with a stranger on a highway haunted by the ghost of a woman who never made it home. Each story is a transformation as Craig turns railroad tracks into an infinite number line and a lightning bolt into a tentacle of the unseen. A plastic fork becomes a parable of fragility and a scrap moon is an image of what is lost and what yet remains. Even a single word repeated captures longing instinct regret and stubborn hope: Fly fly fly.
language: English
title: Wings and Other Things
publisher: Press 53