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Monsters in Appalachia - Short Stories
The characters within these fifteen stories are in one way or another staring into the abyss. While some are awaiting redemption, others are fully complicit in their own undoing.
We come upon them in the mountains of West Virginia, in the backyards of rural North Carolina, and at tourist traps along Route 66, where they smolder with hidden desires and struggle to resist the temptations that plague them.
A Melungeon woman has killed her abusive husband and drives by the home of her son's new foster family, hoping to lure the boy back. An elderly couple witnesses the end-times and is forced to hunt monsters if they hope to survive. A young girl "tanning and manning" with her mother and aunt resists being indoctrinated by their ideas about men. A preacher's daughter follows in the footsteps of her backsliding mother as she seduces a man who looks a lot like the devil.
A master of Appalachian dialect and colloquial speech, Monks writes prose that is dark, taut, and muscular, but also beguiling and playful. Monsters in Appalachia is a powerful work of fiction.
About the Author:
Sheryl Monks holds an MFA from Queens University of Charlotte. Her work has earned the Reynolds Price Short Fiction Award and has appeared in the Greensboro Review, Midwestern Gothic, storySouth, Regarding Arts & Letters, and elsewhere. She is a founding editor of Change Seven magazine. Learn more at sherylmonks.com
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