Ouch
In Ouch, two-time Commonwealth Short Story Prize contender and Pushcart Prize nominee Don McLellan delivers his third and strongest volume of provocative neo-noir.
In settings ranging from Canada to Latin America, the Far East and the Soviet gulag, in prose raw, unflinching and darkly comedic, readers are introduced to a gaggle of disparate characters struggling to navigate the vicissitudes of a mad, indifferent world.
There’s a homeless shoeshine boy;
a reformed drug addict seeking
redemption; a street scribe in war-ravaged, revolutionary China; a mourning widow taking in a damaged stranger.
All hurt.