title: Burning Bright: Stories
author:  Ron Rash 
description: For the past 15 years, Ron Rash has been carving out a position as one of the best writers in America writing about Appalachia... BURNING BRIGHT is raw, honest and assured. (San Francisco Chronicle)<br /><br />Ron Rash (SERENA) delivers compelling bleakness in BURNING BRIGHT, a collection of powerful short stories set in the hardscrabble towns of Appalachia. (San Diego Union-Tribune)<br /><br />The ferally beautiful stories in Ron Rashs BURNING BRIGHT evoke Appalachians of a Civil War past-- and a meth-blighted present-- with the haunting clarity of Walker Evans photographs. (Vogue)<br /><br />The deserving winner of the Frank OConnor International Short Story competition here gathers several of the finest stories anyone could hope to read. These are powerful excursions into the darkest areas of human experience. Magnificent is suddenly too small a word. (Irish Times)<br /><br />These are hard stories. These are hard people. But their troubles are never anything less than compelling...Rash has a feel for Appalachia and its ways, its rough justice, its loyalties... [Rash] has written a memorable, if often brutal, elegy for a vanishing way of life. (Miami Herald)<br /><br />A slender set of spare and menacing depictions of the unforgiving ways of life in rural Appalachia, Burning Bright finds a narrow sweet spot between Raymond Carvers minimalism and William Faulkners Gothic. (Washington Post)<br /><br />Ron Rash is a writer of quiet and stunning beauty... The stories in BURNING BRIGHT are beautiful. Each story is luminescent, deeply communicative of Appalachia and perfectly framed with sentences both lyrical and grounded. (Huffington Post)<br /><br />The skill with which [Ron Rashs] tales are constructed is more apparent in Burning Bright... these paired down short stories make it much easier to see how expertly Mr. Rash fine-tunes his work... elegantly sophisticated work...Mr. Rash certainly knows how to rivet attention. (Janet Maslin, New York Times)<br /><br />Finely drawn stories...a collection to be read for the quality of the prose, which reflects Rashs intimate knowledge of this region and its history. His heart is clearly in this place . (The Oregonian (Portland))<br /><br />A finely crafted, understated collection of 12 stories....Rash writes the way the old bluegrass musicians sing: in a stark, high-lonesome voice capturing the yearning and despair of characters who have lost almost everything but their pride. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
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  This story is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are
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  #  BURN SCARS
  
  
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  #  PROLOGUE
  
  
  September 1982
  
  
  Eric Simons waggled his eyebrows at his friends, and the yellow from the high
  sodium vapor bulb of the streetlight by the house next-door turned his grin
  into something sinister and promising. He pulled a crinkled to soft August,
  1981 issue of Gallery from the middle of the stack of comic books, Sears
  catalogs, and Hockey Pictorial magazines. He tapped the cover twice as he
  said, “I’m telling you, Mr. Bishop has a story in here. The Mr. Bishop. My
  uncle Ed showed me.” The glossy cover was rubbed dull and flipping it open
  revealed worn and bent