Lyrics for Rock Stars: Stories

by Heather Mateus Sappenfield

Overview

This prize-winning collection brings to life skiers, ranchers, cyclists, suffragettes, tourists, super models, dead pigs, burro racers, religious beet farmers, immigrant miners, scorned lovers, penitent centenarians, and musicians. Some historical, some contemporary, its stories revel in their Western settings, as varied as the region’s landscape. Yet each story explores the ways society’s values clash with our individual desires, compelling us, despite tears or laughter, to weave our lives through these opposing forces, often creating not a lifeline, but a noose.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781733048866
Publisher:	V Press LC
Publication date:	09/21/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Heather Mateus Sappenfield's writing explores the adventures that fill life, often in the Rocky Mountain landscape that has been her lifelong home. She's fascinated by the many selves each of us becomes in our varied roles throughout the day (some we like, some we do not), and her writing often delves into the internal adventure of juggling those multiple selves. Among the recognitions she's received are the Danahy Fiction Prize, the Arthur Edelstein Prize, three Pushcart Prize nominations, and finalist for the Flannery O'Connor Award, the Kraken Prize, and the Colorado Book Awards.

Table of Contents

Songs of Innocence

Indian Prayer 2

Real Cowboy 12

Klan 20

Empty Feast 34

Heroes 42

The Call 56

Heavenly Father 69

Go 81

Songs of Wisdom

Guns and Lilies 87

Rescue 90

Coloring Beyond the Lines 101

Parallel 111

The Rusty Knife 121

Thinking's Deadly 130

Lyrics for Rock Stars 138

Velvet Ropes 156

The Oldest Living Man in America 169

Gratitude

Acknowledgements

About the Author