Table of Contents

Stories

The Ghosts in the Desert

- Day Al-Mohamed

Thank You, Little Queens

- Laura Arciniega

Canada, Maybe Even California, or Other States 

(Wyoming? Montana?)

- Kate Bernheimer

The Wind’s Last Breath

- Jos Burns

The Last Genuine Cowboy

- Katie Carmer

In Fresno, One Last Bath in Dust

- Matt Carney

The Drone Pilot

- Andrew Colarusso 

Variation on a Legend

- Jaydn DeWald

Variation on a Myth

- Jaydn DeWald

There Are Ghosts Here

- Dominique Dickey

Crepuscular

- Tessa Fontaine

Broken Crow

- Alyson Hagy

The Objects

- Yuri Herrera; translated by Lisa Dillman

What We Tell Ourselves

- Jac Jemc

What I Assume You Shall Assume

- Ken Liu

Salt

- Tara Lynn Masih

How I Came to Love Kelly Sand’s Sister

- Alex McElroy

Pyrosome

- Kathleen McNamara

Man, Water, Dignity

- Caitlin Palmer

Somebody Is Going to Have to Pay for This

- Benjamin Percy

A Billion Miles from What Was Home

- Phoebe

Once Called California

- Christian Tranberg

The Run

- Willy Vlautin

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Reviews

"At once timely and timeless, ancient and futuristic—reimagining and remaking a region long potent in the imagination." - from the introduction by Vanessa Hua, author of Forbidden City"The stories in This Side of the Divide: New Lore of the American West are fantastic, gritty, imaginative; full of characters as complicated and brutal as the landscapes they inhabit. As disturbing as it is delightful, this anthology both reveals and re-imagines the complex beauty of the American West. I couldn't put it down." - Claire Boyles, author of Site Fidelity, listed for the Reading the West and PEN/Bingham Book Awards in debut fiction"This Side of the Divide: New Lore of the American West is a dazzling ride through reimagined and remixed landscapes of the still-lonesome American West. In its gleeful variety of genres and styles, this anthology affirms that the American West—as an active idea, as a ground for new meaning—is as wide and deep and wild as ever."- Joseph Scapellato, author of The Made-Up Man and Big Lonesome