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Ron Rash

Ron Rash is the author of the 2009 PEN/Faulkner finalist and New York Times best-selling novel Serena, in addition to three other prize-winning novels, One Foot in Eden, Saints at the River, and The World Made Straight; three collections of poems; and four collections of stories, among them Burning Bright, which won the 2010 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. A two-time O. Henry Prize winner, he teaches at Western Carolina University.

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© Renée Y. Labonté, used with permission

The Descent

The man took a beer from the cooler, his third in half an hour, picked up the rod and reel, and walked toward the pier.

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Cherokee

With a green rabbit’s foot clipped on his belt loop, a silver four-leaf clover dangling from his neck, Danny has brought all the good luck he could find. As they drive past a billboard advertising Harrah’s Casino, his free hand…
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A Sort of Miracle

Baroque wished he and Marlboro were back at the house watching the medical shows with their sister, Lisa. Instead, they were in a truck with Denton, their brother-in-law. Baroque wasn’t used to Denton being this nearby. Denton was an accountant,
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Burning Bright

After the third fire in two weeks, there was less talk on the TV and radio stations about careless campers or teenagers stupid enough to think torching a national forest a harmless prank. Not three fires, the park superintendent and…