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Best Short Stories from The Saturday Evening Post Great American Fiction Contest 2017

Penned By Myles McDonough
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Best Short Stories from The Saturday Evening Post Great American Fiction Contest 2017

Penned By Myles McDonough
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A chance encounter in Maryland unveils the painful scars that two men — a chiropractor recently emigrated from Baghdad and a U.S. veteran who fought in the Iraq War — continue to endure. The 2017 winning story, “Crack” by first-time author Myles McDonough, makes it clear that you have to reopen some wounds to heal. In other stories from the fifth annual Saturday Evening Post Great American Fiction Contest, haunting and humorous voices of past relationships, of musicians, office misfits, civil rights activists, and a forgetful man clad in a bunny costume attempt to make sense of the world and find their places in it. For more than 200 years, The Saturday Evening Post has been publishing a who’s who of American authors — Ray Bradbury, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Louis L’Amour, Jack London, Joyce Carol Oates, Edgar Allan Poe, Anne Tyler, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Sinclair Lewis, among so many others — and continues to support the legacy of the storyteller.

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Myles McDonough

Myles McDonough is the author of several novels. Originally from the East Coast, they now live in the Midwest with family. In addition to writing, Myles McDonough enjoys gardening, cooking, and reading way past bedtime. Their work often explores the complexities of everyday life and human relationships.

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"Such a rich narrative. The prose is exquisite. It’s accessible yet undeniably sophisticated. A true literary gem."
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