Bad Faith

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These stories originally appeared in the following publications: “The Mercy Killing of Harry Kleinhard” in Midwestern Gothic; “This Missing” in The Southern Review; “How to Die Young in a Nebraska Winter” in The Kenyon Review; “Impertinent, Triumphant” on Five Chapters; “Violate the Leaves” in Boulevard; “The Current State of the Universe” in The Cincinnati Review; “Attend the Way” in Heavy Feather Review; “Bad Faith” appeared in separate parts as “The First Night of My Down-and-Out Sex Life” in Confrontation, “The Man Who Never Was” in Weekday, and “On a Train from the Place Called Valentine” in Boulevard and New Stories from the Midwest 2015. The between-story vignettes appeared collectively as “Kleinhardt’s Women” on Fogged Clarity.

Aaron helped his dad down the steps and through the door of the Congress. He tried to hurry to a booth before they made a scene, his dad weak, barely upright, but the regulars at the bar had already turned to watch them struggle. Harry’s weight swayed more and more to Aaron’s arm until they got to a booth where Harry could drop into the vinyl and catch his breath. Aaron was breathless too. He wasn’t built to take care of people, but this was what he’d come home to do.

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