<p>Simon Fruelund’s Civil Twilight is a tight, precisely told novella about the surprising interconnectedness of life in the suburbs and about people’s attitudes towards religion, death, family, and sex.</p>

Civil Twilight

Literature & Fiction

Fruelund, Simon

Literary

Spout Hill Press

<p>The 14 stories in this collection display the often quiet, inconspicuous way in which terrible truths and experiences are intimated: the death of a sailboarder makes a widower see deeper into love and loss; a young poet visits his former teacher only to discover he is literally not the person he used to be; a middle-aged man glimpses the terrible humdrum of his third marriage as his son embarks on a new chapter in his life. Conveyed without grandeur or pathos, the revelations in these minimalist stories demonstrate clearly and effectively Fruelund’s gift of subtlety and nuance; like scenes from life, characters’ dramas are played out in brief but brilliant flashes. Ranging across the wide arc of human experience, from the comic to the tragic, each piece explores the complex emotions of the human heart.</p>

Milk and Other Stories

Short Stories & Anthologies

Santa Fe Writer's Project

The World and Varvara

Spuyten Duyvil Publishing

Contemporary

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