{"product_id":"voicjch","title":"Voices Carry, by John Calvin Hughes","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eProse, chapbook, 32 pages, from\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003e\u003ca style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBottlecap Features\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe five stories in \u003cem\u003eVoices Carry\u003c\/em\u003e concern lost individuals. Wandering the blasted landscape of the modern South, these characters aren’t sure of who they are or who they should be. Or who they want to be: people at a crossroads, people who feel trapped, like a bug in amber, watching the world but at a terrible remove from it. They are people who can’t swim fast approaching the deep water.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThese stories illustrate the hard drama of small moments. There are no lessons to be learned here. There is only the enactment of Faulkner’s famous dictum of “the human heart in conflict with itself”: a boy spending the night with his absentee father, a semi-literate piney woods poet, a woman struggling to remember the last word her lover said to her, a wife realizing that she cannot live the life her husband loves. The stories detail whole worlds in miniature.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJohn Calvin Hughes has published in numerous magazines and journals, including \u003cem\u003eDead Mule\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSouthern Indiana Review\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMississippi Review\u003c\/em\u003e. His publications include a critical study, \u003cem\u003eThe Novels and Short Stories of Frederick Barthelme\u003c\/em\u003e (The Edwin Mellen Press); two poetry chapbooks, \u003cem\u003eThe Shape of Our Luck\u003c\/em\u003e (Sargent Press) and \u003cem\u003eCul-de-sac Agonistes\u003c\/em\u003e (Black Bomb Books); a full-length poetry collection, \u003cem\u003eMusic from a Farther Room\u003c\/em\u003e (Aldrich Press); and three novels, \u003cem\u003eTwilight of the Lesser Gods\u003c\/em\u003e (CreateSpace), \u003cem\u003eKilling Rush\u003c\/em\u003e (Second Wind Publishing), and \u003cem\u003eThe Lost Gospel of Darnell Rabren\u003c\/em\u003e (Bowen Press Books). His newest book, \u003cem\u003eThe Boys\u003c\/em\u003e, was published by Regal House press in August 2023. He lives and works in Florida.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Calvin Hughes","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":47108386062651,"sku":"VOICJCH","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":47108386095419,"sku":"VOICJCHe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/files\/voicesfront.jpg?v=1696797493","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/voicjch","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}