The Invisibles(Reprint) Stories (Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction Ser.) by HughSheehy, Nancy Zafris Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2015 by University Of Georgia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-4828-5, ISBN: 0-8203-4828-7
"Though Hugh Sheehy’s often tragic, sometimes gruesome stories feature bloodied knives and mysterious disappearances, at the heart of these thoughtful thrillers are finely crafted character studies of people who wrestle with the darker aspects of human nature―grief, violence, loneliness, and the thoughts of crazed minds.Sheehy’s stories shine a spotlight on the bleak fringes of America, giving voice to the invisibles who need it most. A ..."
The Invisibles Stories (Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction Ser.) by HughSheehy, Nancy Zafris Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2012 by University Of Georgia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-4329-7, ISBN: 0-8203-4329-3
"Though Hugh Sheehy’s often tragic, sometimes gruesome stories feature bloodied knives and mysterious disappearances, at the heart of these thoughtful thrillers are finely crafted character studies of people who wrestle with the darker aspects of human nature―grief, violence, loneliness, and the thoughts of crazed minds.Sheehy’s stories shine a spotlight on the bleak fringes of America, giving voice to the invisibles who need it most. A ..."
"Literary short stories by established and emerging writers. Excerpts: Melanie Rae Thon Saviors The ambulance took seventeen astonishing minutes. Willis and Louise sang the whole time, soft and low, sweet rock-a-bye love songs, as if the man were their first and last and most beloved only child. Armand ML Inezian See Me These old memories--the tastes of candies of his youth, pictures of rooms on other continents, the smell of long-defunc ..."
"These stories amount to something more than a celebration of the holidays dotting our calendars from month to month. Even though holidays can occasion a return to the familiar, these stories challenge traditional associations. Each story serves to complicate how we observe the human observation of holidays and offers a nuanced understanding of related themes such as family and motherhood, travel, grief and mourning processes, and memory ..."
"These stories offer layered, perceptive takes on what home means to us. The people we meet in these stories are often traveling to and from home―thinking about where they have come from, where they are headed, and how that journey will impact their futures. Although the stories approach homecoming and homesickness through varied moods and styles, they all come around to confronting a shared need: a place to call home."
"Literary short stories by established and emerging writersJames Smart Building Butterflies The man in front of Bob turns to him again and finds the courage to whisper in his ear. "There's been an earthquake in Cuba." Bob shrugs. "Why are you telling me?" "I had to tell somebody,"the man says, searching the front of Bob's shirt for a name tag. Gregory Spatz No Kind of Music So, there was something ancestral, something almost at the gene ..."
"form cocaine. The word “crack” belonged to undead grown—ups that herded in
unnamed ghettoes and to the straight—up cops who hunted them. Lionel
sometimes remarks, How quickly and cruelly the outer rworld relates to you. At
times I have replied, How quickly, Lionel? Ho'w cruelly? and at others, Lionel,
could you relate that to Shut the fuck up. More and more lately, I've been saying,
Yes, yes, how quickly indeed. When we left my dad ..."
Design Flaw Stories by Sheehy, Hugh Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2022 by Acre Books ISBN-13: 978-1-946724-55-7, ISBN: 1-946724-55-6
"These stories are enveloped by change and the changes that shift the trajectories of our lives: change that shatters us, change that opens the world, and change from which we can never come back."
Les Invisibles by HughSheehy 304 Pages, Published 2016 by Albin Michel ISBN-13: 978-2-226-33898-3, ISBN: 2-226-33898-5
"Hantées par de mystérieuses disparitions, des traces de violence ou une odeur de sang encore fraîche, les nouvelles de Hugh Sheehy sont autant d'éclats de noirceur au sein d'une Amérique singulière et étrange."