Status Updates From The Middle Ground: Stories

So far, I'm really enjoying this. The stories are very well written, with an undertone of nostalgia and loss. Several take place in the Central Valley of Caifornia, where I grew up, so they have a special meaning to me. Will be on the lookout for future books by this author.

“He’d always been told that with enough drive you could do anything you set your mind to, and it was a decided disappointment to find out that wasn’t true.” - From The Armchair Gardener by Jeff Ewing

Just read “Double Helix” and I have goosebumps. Not from fear, but how so few pages packed such an emotional punch.

“But there is also a pale overlay - like vellum over vellum - of something else, an uneasiness not far from fear.” (Location 73)
Evocative imagery yet approachable prose.
Enjoyed the first story so far!

There was a certain stagnation common among them. They lived in the best of their gone moments, and pushed aside the worst.

The cowboy and the girl look out across a billowing plateau so insubstantial it can’t even support second thoughts.