- Fiction, horror, Indians of north america, fiction, Indian dance, Death
Walking through his own house at night, a fifteen-year-old thinks he sees another person stepping through a doorway. Instead of the people who could be there, his mother or his brother, the figure reminds him of his long-gone father, who died mysteriously before his family left the reservation.
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Grave, intimate, contemporary and earnest.
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- intimateepic
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Stephen Graham Jones
- First published
- 2017
- Pages
- 111
- Publisher
- Tor.com, Tor.com Publishing, Tordotcom
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780765395092
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“I was twelve the first time I saw my dead father cross from the kitchen doorway to the hall that led back to the utility room.”
Stephen Graham work has been included in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, The Best Horror of the Year vol.2, and The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, and has been a finalist for The Shirley Jackson Award, the International Horror Guild Award, and the Black Quill. Jones grew up in West Texas, Ph.D'd. at Florida State University, and teaches in the MFA program at the University of Colorado at Boulder. *From publisher*
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