Peter Biles

Emerging writer Peter Biles offers his first anthology of short stories. Composed with experimental boldness, the stories extend from the hilarious to the grim, from urban disillusionment to rural desperation, from fantasy to gritty realism, and from frustrated longing to quiet hope. With creative debts owed to the likes of Raymond Carver, Flannery O'Connor, and Anton Chekhov, Keep and Other Stories explores human life and relations in a world where utility and power are all that matters. Keep, the penultimate story about two teenage lovers in a dying Colorado lumber town, seeks to unify the anthology into a thematic whole with its tender treatment of characters who are at a crossroads with each other, the dispassionate way of the world, and their own conflicted hearts.

Emerging writer Peter Biles offers his first anthology of short stories. Composed with experimental boldness, the stories extend from the hilarious to the grim, from urban disillusionment to rural desperation, from fantasy to gritty realism, and from frustrated longing to quiet hope. With creative debts owed to the likes of Raymond Carver, Flannery O'Connor, and Anton Chekhov, Keep and Other Stories explores human life and relations in a world where utility and power are all that matters. ""Keep,"" the penultimate story about two teenage lovers in a dying Colorado lumber town, seeks to unify the anthology into a thematic whole with its tender treatment of characters who are at a crossroads with each other, the dispassionate way of the world, and their own conflicted hearts.

When Arnie Tuck's chickens go missing, he naturally assumes it's Bigfoot. That's who people blame for everything in the small community of Jimmytown. But after a mysterious encounter with Bigfoot, Arnie staunchly believes that he has misunderstood the mysterious creature, and he gets involved in a mystery that leads him deep into adventure, unexpected friendships, and encounters with strange and terrifying critters far beyond his comfortable little home in the woods. Hillbilly Hymn is the hilarious, heartwarming tale of an ordinary chicken farmer who discovers a world of myth, wonder, and beauty all waiting for him at his doorstep.