Keep and Other Stories

Emerging writer Peter Biles offers his first anthology of short stories. Composed with experimental boldness, the stories extend from the hilarious to the grim, from urban disillusionment to rural desperation, from fantasy to gritty realism, and from frustrated longing to quiet hope. With creative debts owed to the likes of Raymond Carver, Flannery O'Connor, and Anton Chekhov, Keep and Other Stories explores human life and relations in a world where utility and power are all that matters. ""Keep,"" the penultimate story about two teenage lovers in a dying Colorado lumber town, seeks to unify the anthology into a thematic whole with its tender treatment of characters who are at a crossroads with each other, the dispassionate way of the world, and their own conflicted hearts.

Author: Peter Biles
Publisher: Resource Publications (CA)
Published: 09/27/2022
Pages: 140
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.37lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.30d
ISBN13: 9781666753264
ISBN10: 1666753262
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)
- Fiction | Literary

About the Author
Peter Biles is a novelist, essayist, and journalist from Oklahoma. He earned a BA in English writing from Wheaton College in Illinois and went on to receive an MFA in creative writing from Seattle Pacific University. He is the author of Hillbilly Hymn (Resource Publications, 2022) and has written stories and essays for a variety of journals.