Short stories by Mark Wisniewski

Mark Wisniewski's new novel, Watch Me Go(Jan 22, 2015, G.P. Putnam's Sons), has already earned a starred review from Publisher's Weekly, made the Most Anticipated Books List for 2015 by The Millions, and received advance praise from Salman Rushdie, Daniel Woodrell, Ben Fountain, Rebecca Makkai, Dan Chaon, Christine Sneed, Tim Johnston, and Ru Freeman. His second novel, Show Up, Look Good, was praised by Jonathan Lethem, Molly Giles, Kelly Cherry, DeWitt Henry, T.R. Hummer, Richard Burgin, and Diana Spechler. Wisniewski is also the author of the novel Confessions of a Polish Used Car Salesman, the collection of short stories All Weekend with the Lights On, and the book of narrative poems One of Us One Night. His short fiction has received a Pushcart Prize and appeared in Best American Short StoriesThe Southern ReviewAntioch ReviewNew England ReviewVirginia Quarterly ReviewThe Yale ReviewTriQuarterlyThe Missouri ReviewThe Sun, and The Georgia Review. His narrative poems have appeared in such venues as PoetryThe Iowa ReviewEcotonePrairie SchoonerNew York QuarterlyPost Road, and Poetry International. He’s been awarded two University of California Regents’ Fellowships in Fiction, an Isherwood Fellowship in Fiction, and first place in competitions for the Kay Cattarula Award for Best Short Story, the Gival Press Short Story Award, and the Tobias Wolff Award.

Listing 2 stories.

When a young black man from the Bronx unwittingly becomes an accomplice to the murder of a police officer, he must protect the murderer (his best friend) and flee the life he used to know.

Three roommates agree to remove a woman's oil tank, but the outlandish payment she offers leaves them suspicious of what the tank may contain.