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Going Anywhere

Going Anywhere

by David Armstrong

Published by: Leapfrog Press

Imprint: Leapfrog Press

200 Pages, 6.00 x 9.00 in

Paperback
9781935248613
Published: November 2014

$15.95

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"Controlled, poetically laconic prose . . . a perfect distillation of the ways that grief seems unfathomably large and mysterious."—Lev Raphael, author of Rosedale in Love

"Armstrong's characters are . . . elevated to the heights of tragedy through careful attention to detail and voice."—Las Vegas Weekly

These stories occupy the space between dark realities and the fantastic leaps of faith people make to survive. Connecting them is the journey: people searching for solace, insight, purpose; gathering up their lives into discernible pieces of fact and conviction, hoping to get it right.

David Armstrong had received many awards for his stories, which have been widely published in literary journals. He is fiction editor of Witness Magazine and a recipient of the Black Mountain Institute Fellowship.

Take Care (drive/memory 1)
Patience is a Fruit
A Different-Sized Us
Their Own Resolution

Hear It (drive/memory 2)
Straw Man
Snapshot of Domestic Scene
with Rescue Dog

Murray

Fifty (drive/memory 3)
Bethesda
Courier
Butterscotch

David Armstrong’s individual stories have won the Mississippi Review Prize, the New South Writing Contest, Jabberwock Review’s Prize for Fiction, Ardor Literary Magazine’s Fiction Contest, and Bear Deluxe Magazine’s Doug Fir Fiction Award, among others. His latest stories appear in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Mississippi Review, Baltimore Review, Carve Magazine, and online at Trop Magazine. David has a PhD in fiction from the University of Nevada Las Vegas. He is fiction editor of Witness Magazine and recipient of the Black Mountain Institute Fellowship.

Winner of the Leapfrog Global Fiction Prize

"The many and varied characters in this compilation bring important themes to life.... It isn’t just the characters that keep the pages turning in this collection; the style and slow confidence with which Armstrong delivers his plot twists is exceptional.... Armstrong has a knack for rendering the mundane beautiful through lyrical language.... the sensation in reading this book is that one could be “going anywhere.”” —Rain Taxi Review of Books

"The many and varied characters in this compilation bring important themes to life.... It isn’t just the characters that keep the pages turning in this collection; the style and slow confidence with which Armstrong delivers his plot twists is exceptional.... Armstrong has a knack for rendering the mundane beautiful through lyrical language.... the sensation in reading this book is that one could be “going anywhere.”” —Rain Taxi Review of Books