Randy Nelson
Randy Nelson is the Virginia Lasater Irvin Professor of English at Davidson College, where he teaches courses in nineteenth and twentieth century American fiction. His stories have appeared in numerous commercial and academic publications. Nelson is an award-winner teacher as well as a recipient of multiple national and international prizes for writing. His last book, Imaginary Lives of Mechanical Men, won the 2006 Flannery O’Connor Award for short fiction (UGA Press); and he is currently at work on another collection of stories. Ordinary Terrible Things
Clare awoke to a tiny clink, a bit of background noise that seemed now oddly out of place. Had it come from the kitchen? Two glasses slipping together in the dish drain? For a long while she lay terrified and … Continue reading