Scott Kaukonen is the author of Ordination, winner of the Ohio State University Prize for Short Fiction. His fiction has appeared in the Printers Row Journal, the Cincinnati Review, Pleiades, Normal School, Barrelhouse, Third Coast, and elsewhere. He’s a previous recipient of an NEA Fellowship and the Nelson Algren Prize from the Chicago Tribune. He’s […]
Scott Kaukonen
Scott Kaukonen: The Physics of a Bomb
Every time you close your eyes you see shrapnel and shards of broken glass and razor-sharp fragments of iron and it’s all flying toward you at a thousand miles an hour. You don’t think, you only react, and you launch your body into space in the direction where you believe your daughter stands, the last […]