Publisher’s Weekly hailed the “wit and subtlety” in Gerald Duff’s fiction as “simply satisfying as a tall cold one on a hot Gulf Coast afternoon,” and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazetter said “Gerald Duff’s dialogue is among the best being written, and his sense of the absurd is Portis-like.” This new collection of short stories by the author of Coasters (2001) features the Ploughshares Cohen Prize-winning story “Fire Ants.”
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Gerald Duff. Fire Ants and Other Stories
Fire Ants and Other Stories
Also by Gerald Duff
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About the Author
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Gerald Duff
NEWSOUTH BOOKS
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“Burns? Lawdy have mercy. Do it burn when they bites? Everywhere one of them fire ants sting you it’s a little piece of your hide swell up and rot out all around it. Take about a week to happen.”
Sully felt the ground begin to tilt to one side, and he lifted one foot and brought it down sharply to level things out. The earth pushed back hard, but by keeping his knee locked, he was able to hold it steady. “I don’t know how long I can last,” he said to his right leg, “but I do what I can.”
