Communion. Worship -- Nursing -- Sweetie -- Cow -- The history of silk -- After the locks are changed -- In the corn maze -- Sleep diet: a fable -- The tumor video -- Close-up -- Creekside -- My father, the state prison guard -- Yams -- The earth, she says, is humming -- Every reachable feather -- Fimbulwinter -- Condolences -- The shooting -- Summoned -- During the epidemic -- Turning thirteen in the twentieth century -- Voices -- My father, the scoutmaster -- Photographs -- Overnight -- Milkman -- Election -- The girl scouts visit Oak Ridge -- Sitting in it -- Breathing -- The theories for ball lightning -- The driveway racist -- Flunk -- Tim's hand -- During realistic story workshop -- The scientific method -- Biblical -- After the great war, the future is furious -- Crushed ice -- Buddy system -- Valentine -- Penguins -- Waiting for ray -- Missing -- Selfies -- Smart-Alecks -- Bear wrestling -- Coats -- The secrets of army ants -- Revelation -- At the end of the fluoroscope era -- An assortment of trolls -- Billie Holiday, Sylvia Plath, the weather each morning -- The natural method of dog training -- So much to love -- Stitches -- A brief history of the soft drink -- Fool -- Meat-eater -- Rapping -- After work -- Rehearsals -- Pentecostal -- Birthday presents -- Vocabulary -- Holiday gifts -- Orphans -- The faces of Christ -- Job's backyard -- Communion.
Summary:
"The Corridors of Longing is a widely varied collection of flash fiction, not only through voice and situation, but also through distinctively different forms"-- Provided by publisher.
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