TY  - BOOK
AU  - Parsons,Kimberly King
TI  - Black light: stories 
SN  - 9780525563501
PY  - 2019///
CY  - New York
PB  - Vintage Books
KW  - Interpersonal relations
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Small cities
KW  - Security (Psychology)
KW  - Texas
KW  - Short stories
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Guts -- In our circle -- Glow hunter -- The animal part -- Foxes -- The soft no -- We don't come natural to it -- The light will pour in -- Into the fold -- Black light -- Fiddlebacks -- Starlite
N2  - "With raw, poetic ferocity, Kimberly King Parsons exposes desire's darkest hollows - those hidden places where most of us are afraid to look. In this debut collection of enormously perceptive and brutally unsentimental short stories, Parsons illuminates the ache of first love, the banality of self-loathing, the scourge of addiction, the myth of marriage, and the magic and inevitable disillusionment of childhood. Taking us from hot Texas highways to cold family kitchens, from the freedom of pay-by-the-hour motels to the claustrophobia of private school dorms, these stories erupt off the page with a primal howl - sharp-voiced, acerbic, and wise"--
ER  -