Where the body ends
Subtitle: and other stories
By: René LeBlanc
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Queen's Ferry Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Plano, TX
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9781938466175
Subjects: American Short stories
Description: "What do we reach for? Why grasp at what will harm us? In the stories of Where the Body Ends, damage is palpated by people diseased and deficient. Attempting to connect, René LeBlanc's characters seek salvation and redemption yet find at the end of their reach the same inadequacy that defines their physical and emotional selves. But they try. And this pursuit proves worthwhile, for despite grievous presentations of loss and betrayal and illness, this collection approaches the reader with an honest heart and an open hand. Unsentimental living--for those forced to sell their plasma or lock themselves away at night as protection from their disabled children--happens where the body ends and the world begins"--P. [4] of cover.
Table of contents: title: Auction; title: Donor; title: Evangeline; title: AWOL; title: Where the body ends; title: First buck; title: Snow Queen; title: Runes; title: The blind salamander; title: Haunted houses; title: A change in the weather.