Fiction. Set in the dreamscape of the Kaats Kills, THE RUNAWAY NOTE is the fragmented story of two star-crossed lovers as they steal the devil's van, resurrect a dead boy, and re-experience their past lives. A pastiche of surreal romance, epistolary, and tall tale, the book takes the reader on an alternatingly whimsical and gruesome tour of youth, home, violence, time, and death. At once funny and menacing, inventive and human, THE RUNAWAY NOTE manages to find tenderness in the face of the inevitable end."Tyrone Jaeger's THE RUNAWAY NOTE is a violent and mystical record of a recurring nightmare brought on by reading Flannery O'Connor and Frank Stanford. Coyotes are running across the dam. The moon is murderous. The difference between the living and the dead is not the capacity for love. And I now know this is what happens when you die: you wake up, and you ask for forgiveness."—Zachary Schomburg

The Runaway Note

Literature & Fiction

Jaeger, Tyrone

Contemporary

Shakespeare & Company, Toad Suck

<p>So Many True Believers gives voice to the wanton, the restless, and those hellbent on self-destruction. The Nat Mota School for at-risk youth is the nexus of Tyrone Jaeger's spiraling narrative; loosed from it is an array of characters yearning, raging, and chasing down their misguided dreams. There is Jeremy, mourning the loss of his girlfriend to a UFO cult; Harold, the betrayed husband exploring intimacy in unfamiliar waters; and Ginny, the teenage runaway hiding out with a band of video-obsessed squatters. Mystery, magic, and gritty realism are coiled against a backdrop of failed relationships and addictions in this darkly humorous debut collection depicting the frayed edges of the American psyche.</p>

So Many True Believers

Short Stories & Anthologies

Queen's Ferry Press

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