Short stories by Dan Chaon
Dan Chaon is an American writer. Formerly a creative writing professor, he is the author of three short story collections and four novels.
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Listing 5 stories.
A young boy grows up believing that he is a detective in an imaginary city, and he quickly grows suspicious of his new neighbor. As he grows older, he ruminates on his imaginary city.
On a visit to his old family farm in the Great Plains, a man recalls his tumultuous relationship with his now-deceased brother. In the process, he must reckon with the continued influence of familial trauma and confront his own ambiguous role in his brother's death.
In an American dystopia, a man who helps rescue and raise children who are born as predators is traveling with a predator child to Salt Lake City in hopes to provide him with a normal life.
A strange and obsessive teenage girl and her shy younger brother enter into a disturbing world of dark magic and unknown forces. The girl, against her brother's warning, becomes fixated on getting a local man to fall in love with her by any means necessary.
When an alcoholic-turned-family man in modern-day Cleveland has sleeping problems due to his son’s night screaming, he is haunted by his other family that he left behind a decade prior. During a nightmare about his old family, he wakes up to an even more grim reality.