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Black Wine

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“Black Wine.”

Was she perfume or fermented liquor?

“Are you certain you want me to call you that?”

Her car door slammed shut. She rolled down its window and said, “Yes. Now get your ass in here.”

Dennis Must is the author of two short story collections: Oh, Don't Ask Why, Red Hen Press, Los Angeles, CA (2007), and Banjo Grease, Creative Arts Book Company, Berkeley, CA (2000). His plays have been performed Off Off Broadway and his fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies and literary reviews. He resides with his wife in Salem, Massachusetts.

Oh, Don't Ask Why

author: Dennis Must
ASIN or ISBN-10: 1597090581
binding: Paperback
list price: $15.95 USD
amazon price: $15.87 USD

Banjo Grease

Most of the stories in Dennis Must's provocative debut collection deal with characters from small towns in Pennsylvania factory towns with pottery plants and bronze foundries. These stories interlock to create a larger narrative about working-class people, whose lives are defined by the typical conflicts which shape most people's lives: marital conflicts, conflicts between relatives, inner conflicts over personal happiness and success, and struggles to understand the mysterious nature of life and death. The emotional mysteries of families is Must's domain.