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Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories by Kevin Wilson

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By Kevin Wilson

Kevin Wilson's characters inhabit an international that strikes seamlessly among the genuine and the imagined, the mundane and the wonderful. "Grand Stand-In" is narrated by way of an worker of a Supplemental Provider—a corporation that provides "stand-ins" for households with deceased, in poor health, or simply simple suggest grandparents. And in "Blowing Up at the Spot," a tender girl works sorting tiles at a Scrabble manufacturing facility after her mom and dad have spontaneously combusted.

Southern gothic at its top, laced with humor and pathos, those splendidly artistic tales discover the connection among loss and dying and the various methods we attempt to deal with either.

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I take it, hold it up to the moonlight, and then place it gently on my tongue. It is sweet, like a piece of string coated with rock candy. She tells me it is from working in the candy shop all day. Clouds of sugar hover in the air and settle in her hair. I chew the flavor from the strand and place the hair in my pocket. I ask her if she is happy spending so much time at the shop. She has been working there with her mother since she was a child, skipping school altogether and not doing any of the normal things young women do.

I ask if I can see Greta and he lets me in. I go upstairs and Greta is already in bed, but she sits up and smiles when she sees me come in. ” she says, and I sit beside her. I tell her that I made a tape for her and I hand her the recorder. I hit play and we listen to her grandmother sing the lullaby. “That’s it,” she says, clapping her hands. ” I nod. ” We play the song again and then she is asleep. I walk downstairs and open the front door. “Bye, Mom,” both of the Beamers call out, and I am gone.

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