Turnback Creek

Author: Lonnie Busch
Publisher: Texas Review Press
Publication Date: Early Summer 2007
ISBN 978-1-933896-07-6
Paper $12.95

During the day, retired heavy equipment operator Cole Emerson cooks, cleans, and tries to keep his dying sister comfortable. At night he escapes into the dark solitude of Hardman Lake to fish for bass and clear his head, until one night in Turnback Creek he meets a mysterious girl who awakens in him a young man's desires and old buried memories.

Available at: http://www.tamu.edu/upress/BOOKS/2007/busch.htm
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Lonnie Busch's short stories have appeared in such publications as Southwest Review, The Minnesota Review, The Baltimore Review, Flint Hills Review, The Southeast Review, Pisgah Review, and others.