Gary Fincke

gfincke-103Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Prize for short fiction, Gary Fincke is the author of many books, including the poetry collection Standing Around the Heart (Arkansas) and the short story collections Sorry I Worried You and The Stone Children, both published by the University of Missouri Press.  He currently directs the Writers Institute at Susquehanna University, where he holds a distinguished chair.

Things that Fall from the Sky

Rocks From a freeway overpass in Central Pennsylvania, four teenage boys fling rocks at traffic passing beneath them along Route 80. One misses hitting anything but the highway. One nearly the size of a bowling ball bounces off the cab … Continue reading →