Ed Falco On the Air

In Matthew Vollmer's short story "Oh Land of National Paradise, How Glorious Are They Bounties," the life of a young man working as a waiter in Yellowstone Park gets complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's girlfriend—and even more complicated when that best friend dies suddenly and tragically. Send us Fan Mail Support the show

In her short story "The Heart of Things," Kristina Gorcheva Newberry explores the fraught relationship between three women: a mother and her two adult daughters. Carmen, the younger daughter, has been living in the U.S. for 17 years, while her mother and Leezy, her sister, have remained at home in the Soviet Union. It's not easy to say what this story is about, though certainly it c...

Ed Falco reading "Among the Tootalonians," a story that's set in 2001, in the anxious days and weeks after the 9-11 terrorist attack in New York. Val, the central character in the story, is living in Boise, Idaho, where his young wife has recently left him to pursue a relationship with a locally famous artist. Val, as he wil tell you, is not in a good place. Send us Fan Mail Support...

Ed Falco begins Season 2 of Ed Falco on the Air by reading his short story, "Acid," the title story of his 1996 collection from The University of Notre Dame Press. The collection was published as winner of The Richard Sullivan Prize. "Acid" was originally published in TriQuarterly , and included in his new and selected stories, Sabbath Night in the Church of the Piranha , from...

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In the previous Episode,  Severn went into Millersville, where he encountered what he came to believe was an alien species inhabiting the town. On his return to the farm, he told Tommy and Vi what he’d seen, and they packed up supplies and moved out of the house to camp atop a nearby hill, where they’d have a view of anyone approaching the farm. The plan was for all three of them to visit Millersv...

In  Episode 6, at the conclusion of Part 1 of the novel, Severn and the kids—Tommy and Vi—awakened from their drugged sleep to find the storms had passed and that electrical devices, and cars, were working again. After driving to town and finding it reeking with the dead, they left for Severn’s father-in-law’s farm, a rural expanse with relatively few human inhabitants. In Part 2 of the novel, we...

In  Episode 5, Severn and the kids—Tommy and Vi—awakened from a medicated sleep to find storms still raging. When they attempted to leave the house briefly, they were attacked by a pack of vicious dogs—and one gentle one, named Sterling, who made it safely back into the house with them. At the end of the episode, they’ve taken more of Sarah’s pills in an effort to sleep through the storms, and the...

At the end of Episode 4, Severn had given the kids, Tommy and Vi, powerful sleeping pills to knock them out for what appeared to be the beginning of another lurching. At the end of the episode, they were all sleeping. That's where we pick up Episode 5. Send us Fan Mail Support the show