{"product_id":"sometimes-creek-paperback","title":"Sometimes Creek - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWINNER\u003cem\u003e, \u003c\/em\u003eShort Fiction, American BookFest Best Book Awards (2023)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFINALIST, Indie Fiction, Chicago Writers Association Book Awards (2023)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe seventeen unrelenting stories in Steve Fox's debut story collection, \u003cem\u003eSometimes Creek\u003c\/em\u003e, traverse a sub-zero trail of plausible magic and grit from a kaleidoscope of broken ice at a hockey rink in Wisconsin that coils through haunted rivers and around dangling legs of jamón serrano in sweltering Spanish bars and back again to a place where Kafka and Carver meet up on the page. Fox's clean prose takes you by the hand and weaves a tapestry of tenderness, dissonance, indifference, dystopia, and charm into that gauzy space that collectively takes shape in your hands as \u003cem\u003eSometimes Creek\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51370195189983,"sku":"9798986144764","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/cMrsFysM1D9798986144764.webp?v=1789153620","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/sometimes-creek-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}