Books by Don Skiles

Across The Street From The Ordinary is a collection of recent short fiction. The stories here move through a wide variety of settings, characters, narratives - all not quite conventional.

Most of the pieces in "Rain After Midnight" can be thought of as filmic, as "long story short." There are four distinct sets of stories: One set has to do with film, cinema, movies; a second springs from thinking about writing, what is involved; pieces connected with England make a third grouping; and the fourth is the past, that great well.

This powerful character-driven tale follows Larry Simmons through several life-changing events as 1957 looms on the horizon. Should he continue his athletic aspirations? Will he be inspired by more poetry? What does high school mean to him? And what is happening with Cameron Mitchell?