Prose #18: Chase Dearinger

"The Numbskull Piece" by Chase Dearinger

(Branson, MO): A newlywed couple deals with family stress at Silver Dollar City as the High Holy Days approach.

This is the eighteenth installment of the Belle Point Prose Series, an ongoing collection of short prose works by Mid-Southern writers.

Chase Dearinger is an Oklahoma native who now lives in Kansas with his wife and two daughters. His fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have appeared in magazines around the country, including Bayou, The Southampton Review, Short Story America, and Heavy Feather Review. He currently serves as the Chief Editor of Emerald City, a quarterly online fiction magazine, and directs the Cow Creek Chapbook Prize, an annual poetry chapbook contest. He is a professor of creative writing and literature at Pittsburg State University. This New Dark is his first novel.

• Publication Date: January 2024
• Trim size: 5 x 7 inches

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