Hollis Seamon is the author of Flesh, Somebody Up There HATES You, and Body Work. She has published short stories in many journals, including Bellevue Literary Review, Greensboro Review, Fiction International, Chicago Review, Nebraska Review, Persimmon Tree, and CALYX. She is a recipient of a fiction fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Seamon is Professor of English at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY, and also teaches for the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT. She lives in Kinderhook, NY.
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Smart-mouthed, funny, and sometimes crude, Richard Casey is in most ways a typical seventeen-year-old boy. Except Ritchie has cancer, and he's spending his final days in a hospice unit. His mother, his doctors, and the hospice staff are determined to keep... SEE MORE