{"id":219,"date":"2023-03-29T15:37:10","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T15:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alecclayton.com\/writingetc\/?p=219"},"modified":"2023-03-29T15:37:42","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T15:37:42","slug":"kruses-the-boy-will-linger-in-your-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alecclayton.com\/writingetc\/kruses-the-boy-will-linger-in-your-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Kruse\u2019s \u201cThe Boy\u201d Will Linger in Your Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"468\" height=\"330\" src=\"https:\/\/alecclayton.com\/writingetc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Megan-Kruse-anthology-cover.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alecclayton.com\/writingetc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Megan-Kruse-anthology-cover.png 468w, https:\/\/alecclayton.com\/writingetc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Megan-Kruse-anthology-cover-300x212.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Megan Kruse\u2019s short story \u201cThe Boy\u201d in the story collection <em>Mud Flat Shorts (mostly fiction)<\/em> is a haunting story that will stay with you long after you finish reading it, a story you\u2019ll want to read again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A young American soldier named Chester is stationed near the river Anapo in Italy. Despite the camaraderie of the other soldiers in his unit, Chester is alone, a misfit. He does not join the others on their drunken trip into town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One day while sitting under an olive tree watching a local farmer at work, a boy wearing an apple-green cap walks by, and watching the boy sends Chester back to reveries of his boyhood in Indiana and later in Ohio, where he is sent to live with an aunt and uncle he never met.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We see Chester as alone among others, as much a misfit at home as he is in the war as Kruse skillfully goes back and forth from Italy to Chester\u2019s boyhood in the Midwest. It is a beautifully constructed story that everyone may relate to. Have we not all felt alone in a crowd, among colleagues, with sisters and cousins; or struggled with feelings of guilt over things for which we may or may not have been responsible?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Boy\u201d is included in the anthology <em>Mud Flat Shorts (mostly fiction)<\/em>, a collection of 31 stories by 19 writers including, in addition to <strong>Kruse<\/strong>, <em>New York Times<\/em>&nbsp;bestselling author and Pulitzer-Prize nominee&nbsp;<em><strong>Jack Butler<\/strong><\/em>; O. Henry Award and&nbsp;<em>Big Muddy<\/em>&nbsp;magazine\u2019s Mighty River Short Story Prize winner&nbsp;<strong>Keith Eisner<\/strong>; one by National bestselling author of&nbsp;<em>The Eagle Tree<\/em>,&nbsp;<strong>Ned Hayes<\/strong>; plus stories by&nbsp;<strong>Dawud H. Al-Malik<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Jenni Prange Boran<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Christian Carvaja<\/strong>l,&nbsp;<strong>Alec Clayton<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>CK Combs<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>John Knold as Tracy Gunn<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Meenu Madhavan<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Shree Nath<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Anne Nayer<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>James O\u2019Barr<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>James Robert Peery<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Jes Simmons<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Samuel Snoek-Brown<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>James P. Stuart<\/strong>, and&nbsp;<strong>Ricker Winsor.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Megan Kruse<\/strong> grew up in the Pacific Northwest,&nbsp;studied creative writing at Oberlin College, and earned her MFA at the University of Montana. She&nbsp;is the author of&nbsp;<em>Call Me Home<\/em>,&nbsp;published by Hawthorne Books in 2015 with an introduction by Elizabeth Gilbert. She&nbsp;was one of the National Book Foundation\u2019s \u201c5 Under 35\u201d for 2015, and a recipient of the 2016 Pacific Northwest Book Award.&nbsp;She currently lives in Olympia, Washington and teaches fiction for the&nbsp;low-residency MFA program at Eastern Oregon University. She is at work on a&nbsp;second&nbsp;novel.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn more about <em>Mud Flat Shorts (mostly fiction) <\/em>at <a href=\"https:\/\/mudflatpress.com\/mud-flat-shorts-mostly-fiction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/mudflatpress.com\/mud-flat-shorts-mostly-fiction\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Megan Kruse\u2019s short story \u201cThe Boy\u201d in the story collection Mud Flat Shorts (mostly fiction) is a haunting story that will stay with you long after you finish reading it, a story you\u2019ll want to read again. A young American soldier named Chester is stationed near the river Anapo in Italy. 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