Sometimes Creek

<p><strong>WINNER<em> </em>Short Fiction American BookFest Best Book Awards (2023)</strong></p><p><strong>FINALIST Indie Fiction Chicago Writers Association Book Awards (2023)</strong></p><p></p><p>The seventeen unrelenting stories in Steve Fox's debut story collection <em>Sometimes Creek</em> traverse a sub-zero trail of plausible magic and grit from a kaleidoscope of broken ice at a hockey rink in Wisconsin that coils through haunted rivers and around dangling legs of jamón serrano in sweltering Spanish bars and back again to a place where Kafka and Carver meet up on the page. Fox's clean prose takes you by the hand and weaves a tapestry of tenderness dissonance indifference dystopia and charm into that gauzy space that collectively takes shape in your hands as <em>Sometimes Creek</em>.</p>