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Under the Valley (A Short Story) (Kindle Single) Kindle Edition
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A phone call destroys the quiet of one August morning for Theresa. What she can’t yet know is how much her world has been shattered. Her new husband, Billy, has been wounded while serving in Iraq, and now they say he’s coming home. But, like so many young soldiers returning from conflict, Billy’s homecoming brings with it much more than just the relief of return. Physically hurt and psychologically damaged, Billy now has secrets. Remembering the salad days of their marriage, Theresa is confused and disappointed by the change in her husband. It seems that their plans—and the luck that they had so happily assumed was responsible for their love—have changed too. As Theresa watches Billy’s silent decline, she must decide if she will sink with him or seize control and lead them in a more hopeful direction.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherStoryFront
- Publication dateSept. 10 2014
- File size691 KB
Product description
About the Author
Mesha Maren is a fiction writer from southern West Virginia. Her work appears in Tin House, the Oxford American, Hobart, the Barcelona Review, and Forty Stories: New Writing from Harper Perennial.
Product details
- ASIN : B00MAT5G8A
- Publisher : StoryFront (Sept. 10 2014)
- Language : English
- File size : 691 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 22 pages
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About the author

Mesha Maren’s debut novel, Sugar Run, is forthcoming from Algonquin Books in January 2019. Her short stories and essays have appeared in Tin House, Oxford American, Crazyhorse, Southern Cultures, Hobart, Forty Stories: New Writing from Harper Perennial, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the 2015 Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize, a 2014 Elizabeth George Foundation grant, an Appalachian Writing Fellowship from Lincoln Memorial University, and fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and the Ucross Foundation. She is the 2018-2019 Kenan Visiting Writer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and also serves as a National Endowment of the Arts Writing Fellow at the Beckley Federal Correctional Institution.