Home and Beyond: An Anthology of Kentucky Short Stories

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iv Introduction Copyright © 2001 by The University Press of Kentucky Paperback edition 2002 Scholarly publisher for the Commonwealth, serving Bellarmine University, Berea College, Centre College of Kentucky, Eastern Kentucky University, The Filson Historical Society, Georgetown College, Kentucky Historical Society, Kentucky State University, Morehead State University, Murray State University, Northern Kentucky University, Transylvania University, University of Kentucky, University of Louisville, and Western Kentucky University. All rights reserved. Editorial and Sales Offices: The University Press of Kentucky 663 South Limestone Street, Lexington, Kentucky 40508-4008 www.kentuckypress.com Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Home and beyond : an anthology of Kentucky short stories / edited by Morris Allen Grubbs : with an introduction by Wade Hall and an afterword by Charles E. May. p. cm. ISBN 0-8131-2192-2 (cloth: alk. paper); ISBN 0-8131-9019-3 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Short stories, American—Kentucky. 2. Kentucky—Social life and customs—Fiction. I. Grubbs, Morris Allen, 1963- . Title. PS558.K4 H66 2001 813’.01089769—dc21 00-012275 ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-9019-8 (pbk. : alk. paper) This book is printed on acid-free paper meeting the requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence in Paper for Printed Library Materials. Manufactured in the United States of America. Since this page cannot legibly accommodate all the copyright notices, the notices appear at the end of the book as an extension of the copyright page. Member of the Association of American University Presses axdiK memory of 1Jr:!oraftJewr:LLJvtoorr: 1361-2000 8.217.144.32] Project MUSE (2024-04-23 13:59 GMT) This page intentionally left blank It's an old question-the call of the hearth or the call of the wild? Should I stay or should I go? Who is better off, those who traipse around or those who spend decades in the same spot, growing roots? ... We're always yearning and wandering, whether we actually leave or not. In America, we all come from somewhere else, and we carry along some dream myth ofhome, a notion that something-our point of origin, our roots, the home country-is out there. It's a place where we belong, where we know who we are. Maybe it's in the past ... or maybe it's somewhere ahead.... Maybe we'll never find what we're looking for, but we have to look. BoBBIE ANN MAsoN, CLEAR SPRINGS Writing is a search for truth. Sometimes, maybe, it is even a finding. HOLLIS SUMMERS, INTERVIEW IN THE KENTUCKY REVIEW 8.217.144.32] Project MUSE (2024-04-23 13:59 GMT) This page intentionally left blank ...