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You told me about your grandfather, how he kept
forgetting his name and trying to break out of the
nursing home. You said you always mean to visit him
but somehow never do. You held up a cigarette and
watched it degenerate into ash and smoke.
How to Write an Emotionally Resonant Werewolf Novel by Alex Miller is a short story collection written during the tumultuous years following global financial crisis. Each story, in all its grit, gives us humanity at its weakest, its most tired, its most determined. We fold shirts for minimum wage at the mall, scrape together rent money from tips earned waiting tables, stay up until 3 a.m. playing video games, skip school, skip work, smoke cigarettes, watch resignedly as our nation marches to war, cheat on the people we love, linger at night on social media, and find ourselves suddenly alone and at peace, standing on a hilltop with birds.
About the author
Alex Miller is a Pittsburgh-based writer, journalist and graphic designer. His fiction has been published widely in print and online journals, including Maudlin House, Whiskeypaper and Rabbit Catastrophe Review. He is the author of the novella, "Osama bin Laden is Dead," which is about young anarchists attempting to escape from small-town hell. He is the former head of design for Fifth Wednesday Journal. He has lived and worked in Nashville, Chattanooga, Daytona Beach and the Big Island of Hawaii. A Florida native, he grew up in Spring Hill, Tennessee.
