Tag: Debut

  • Strange Landscapes of Loss and Longing in Michael Credico’s Heartland Calamitous

    By Couri Johnson In Michael Credico’s debut collection of short stories, Heartland Calamitous, he takes us from fever-dream to fever dream in a strange and fragmented Midwest. Corpses bloat in backyard pools for days, dissolving alongside a marriage; a bear is taken into a family to replace the son he devoured, only to be devoured…