Fiction
240 Pages
ISBN: 1-59766-001-9
Paper $17.95

Winner of the annual Spokane Prize for Short Fiction, Something for the Journey stunningly outlines the tension between the human yearning to be free and the yearning for home. These polar impulses define and motivate the characters with such clarity, we cannot help wishing they will somehow arrive at, depart for, or stay nestled in the bosom of whatever it is they need to keep them whole. It is as though the residents of Winesburg, Ohio, had picked up, separately, and moved to the northern California coast, there to be haunted, no matter where subsequent travels may take them, by something they cannot quite remember. This is a beautifully written and moving collection of stories.

Richard Cortez Day’s acclaimed novel, When in Florence, published in 1986, is still in print. His stories have appeared in numerous publications, including Kenyon Review, Redbook, and West Coast Review. Day was Raymond Carver’s teacher at Humboldt State University.