The Middle Ground: Stories

By Jeff Ewing

The middle ground is a place we've all crossed, the halfway point between who you are and who you want to be. In Jeff Ewing's collection of stories, his diversely American characters call it home. From a story of a man living in the shadow of an abandoned missile silo that may hold the answer to a mystery of vanished children, to one of a small-town beauty tentatively courting stardom, Ewing's sparse, musical prose illuminates lives lived in that space between fear and courage, hope and regret, life and death. Fog remembers, revenge beckons, and loneliness gives birth to fragile beauty—while in the distance the future gleams on a car hood, daring bold hands to seize it.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Into the Void
• Release date: Feb 19, 2019
• ISBN: 9781775381327

Jeff Ewing

Jeff Ewing is the author of the short story collection The Middle Ground, published by Into the Void Press, and the poetry collection Wind Apples, coming May 26, 2021 from Terrapin Books. His stories, poems, and essays have been widely published in literary magazines, including Crazyhorse, Southwest Review, Subtropics, Catamaran, ZYZZYVA, Utne Reader, Cherry Tree, and Atlanta Review. His full-length play The Middle of Nowhere received the Maxim Mazumdar New Play Award and world premiered at the Alleyway Theatre in Buffalo, New York. Jeff lives in Sacramento, California.