The Fear of Everything: Stories
A magician shows up unexpectedly at a grade school. Retirees answer phone calls from lonely children. A sleep study assistant speaks to a patient about his own afterlife experiences. Twenty years ago, Richard Russo wrote of Troublemakers, “John McNally is an electrifying writer whose stories burrow under the skin. His world becomes our world, his way of seeing, ours. Resistance is futile.” The same is true of these nine stories that are by turns fantastical, hilarious, and heartbreaking.
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The Fear of Everything: Stories
A magician shows up unexpectedly at a grade school. Retirees answer phone calls from lonely children. A sleep study assistant speaks to a patient about his own afterlife experiences. Twenty years ago, Richard Russo wrote of Troublemakers, “John McNally is an electrifying writer whose stories burrow under the skin. His world becomes our world, his way of seeing, ours. Resistance is futile.” The same is true of these nine stories that are by turns fantastical, hilarious, and heartbreaking.
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The Fear of Everything: Stories

The Fear of Everything: Stories

by John McNally
The Fear of Everything: Stories

The Fear of Everything: Stories

by John McNally

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Overview

A magician shows up unexpectedly at a grade school. Retirees answer phone calls from lonely children. A sleep study assistant speaks to a patient about his own afterlife experiences. Twenty years ago, Richard Russo wrote of Troublemakers, “John McNally is an electrifying writer whose stories burrow under the skin. His world becomes our world, his way of seeing, ours. Resistance is futile.” The same is true of these nine stories that are by turns fantastical, hilarious, and heartbreaking.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781946160638
Publisher: University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press
Publication date: 09/01/2020
Pages: 130
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

John McNally is author or editor of seventeen previous books, including The Book of Ralph: A Novel and The Boy Who Really, Really Wanted to Have Sex: The Memoir of a Fat Kid. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, John is Writer-in-Residence and the Dr. Doris Meriwether/BORSF Professor in English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

Table of Contents

The Magician 1

The Lawyer 15

The Fear of Everything 23

The Phone Call 37

The Creeping End 55

The Blueprint of Your Brain 69

The Next Morning 99

The Devil in the Details 113

Catch and Release 153

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