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Shoebox Trainwreck by John Mantooth
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I picked this up at Recycle because the book design was nice and I had a lot of trade credit. This guy is a really good writer. Unfortunately it was mis-shelved in SciFi.

The opening story, "A Long Fall into Nothing" was a shock and really good, but subsequently it fell into a rut of stories where something bad happens, or has happened, and the narrator/main character is stuck on a bad road that he can't escape. All Appalachian/Rust-Belt settings with drugs and violence. However, there were about three stories with supernatural elements, and they were great. The title story and "Walk the Wheat" were the standouts.
the hands that guide me are invisible
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