Short stories by Kevin Canty
Kevin Canty is the award-winning author of the novels Into the Great Wide Open, Nine Below Zero, and Winslow in Love, as well as the short story collections Honeymoon and Other Stories, A Stranger in This World, and Where the Money Went. His most recent book is The Underworld: A Novel, published in 2017. His work has been published in The New Yorker, Esquire, GQ, Details, Story, TheNew York Times Magazine, Tin House, and Glimmer Train. He currently teaches fiction writing at the University of Montana.
Listing 3 stories.
A high school boy struggles with his adolescent sexual desires alongside his devotion to Jehovah's Witness as he navigates a budding friendship with a female schoolmate.
When a middle-aged widower rediscovers his sexual prowess through happy ending massages, he must reconcile his new pastime with his former identity of a loyal husband and father.
When a graduate student makes his way to Colorado with his recently unemployed girlfriend to visit his married friends, an alarming development in his friends’ marriage causes him to reevaluate his own relationship and, in the process, make a grave mistake.