Clifford Garstang 

Publications

In an Uncharted Country

 

 

 

 

 

The award-winning stories that make up this linked collection showcase ordinary men and women in and around Rugglesville, Virginia, as they struggle to find places and identities in their families and the community. They experience natural disasters, a sun-worshipping cult, Vietnam flashbacks, kidnapping, addiction, and loss. The book’s opening story, “Flood, 1978,” follows Hank, who comes to understand his father’s deep sense of grief over the death of his wife. Later, in “Hand-painted Angel,” Hank’s sons see the family spinning apart as their father ages and family secrets are disclosed. In “The Clattering of Bones,” Walt mourns the collapse of his marriage after the loss of a child, but in the collection’s title story he recognizes his emotional need for family. The concluding story, “Red Peony,” unifies the collection, as many of the book’s characters come together for a tumultuous 4th of July Celebration.


Short Stories
  • "Justice Inc.," Los Angeles Review, Vol. 7, Spring 2010
  • "Artoyen's Razor," Tampa Review, [forthcoming]
  • "Counterpoint," Wisconsin Review, Vol. 43, No. 2, Spring 2009
  • "Savage Source," Ashé Journal, 8.1, Spring 2009
  • "Hunger," Cream City Review, Vol. 33, No. 1, Spring 2009
  • "In the Palace of Cortés," Per Contra, Winter 2009
  • "Headlong," The Binnacle Fall 2008
  • "Papel Picado," Quick Fiction, No. 14, Fall 2008
  • "House of the Ancients," RE:AL Vol. 33, No. 1, Summer/Fall 2008
  • "Adjunct," Predicate, July 2008
  • "The Nymph and the Woodsman," Whitefish Review, Summer 2008
  • "No Sudden Moves," Right Hand Pointing, No. 21, June 2008
  • "Last Call," Bound Off, February 2008
  • "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Wedding," Monkeybicycle, October 2007
  • "Heading for Home," The Baltimore Review, Winter/Spring 2006; Ray's Road Review, Summer 2007
  • "The Ox," The Binnacle, 2007 Ultra-short Competition
  • "Peace Talks," The Beat, June 2007
  • "Nicky, Natalia," Potomac Review, No. 42, Fall 2007
  • "Nanking Mansion," GSU Review Spring/Summer 2007
  • "The Pet Palace," Storyglossia, No. 21, July 2007
  • "The White Swan," The Hub, December 2007
  • "The Learned Lama," Six Little Things, Number 5, Winter 2007
  • "The Clattering of Bones," Timber Creek Review, Vol. 10, No. 1, Spring 2004; R-KV-R-Y, Vol. II, No. IV, Summer 2006
  • "Tornado Weather," The Binnacle, 2006 Ultra-short Competition
  • "Flood, 1978," The Circle Magazine, Issue 30, Summer 2004; Eureka Literary Magazine, Vol. 13, No. 2, Spring 2005; Ray's Road Review, Spring 2007
  • "Saving Melissa," The Ledge, No. 30, Fall-Winter 2007
  • "Stonewall," Confluence 2006
  • "In an Uncharted Country," RE:AL, Vol. 31, No. 1, Summer/Fall 2006
  • "Ride on Bald Rock Hill," The Beat, April 2005
  • "Hand-painted Angel," Bellowing Ark, Vol. 21, No. 1, January/February 2005
  • "Leviathan," North Dakota Quarterly, Vol. 71, No. 4, Fall 2004; R.KV.R.Y, Winter 2008

Essays and Reviews

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