Fiction. Merrill Gilfillan's short stories are natural extensions of his eloquent and lyrical accounts of Appalachia, the Great Plains, the Western mountains. Each character is given the same quiet respect that he gives to nature. We finish each story with a sense of connection to them and their place, a reassurance of balance and symmetry. Gilfillan's writings often seem to be of another time...no other author today writes such thoughtful, lyrical and majestic prose - Lucia Berlin.
