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love short stories, and found that these will fall amongst those that I love, The writer was superbly and pleasingly descriptive and made it so I finished the book in a quick sitting.
I cannot really pick a favorite but can request that others do read this book to find their own.
From the first paragraph of “Apricots,” the first story in "The Seven Stages of Anger," I had a hunch I was reading something special.
I could imagine an hourlong creative writing class devoted to the many ways that first paragraph works, but heres the opening sentence as a teaser: “As children growing up in the eastern Washington desert, the dry side of the Cascades, we learned to speak of rain the way we spoke of the dead: with reverence, with longing, without hope of return.
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The narrator is the only girl in “pack of a half a dozen kids, " Her world is raw and right on top of the earth, “Up in the land behind our respective homes, there were spindly timbers and scrub and dried lichens on the exposed rock.
We would find a walking stick and get to it, ”

“Apricots” concerns a fire and a group of buddies separated by natural events, by life, by growing up.
Its about hope, regeneration, loss and renewal, “Apricots” seems to ask where memory intersects melancholy, It suggests the search for recapturing childhood bonds will never cease, nor should it,

In “Fauntleroy,” reconnecting surfaces again as a two childhood friends make a go as lovers and she knows its not going to work.
This is another story where heat plays a critical role in moving events along and also were the freshness of childhood is contrasted with the order and staleness that adult sensibilities seem to require.
The narrator can do nothing to stop the decay, cant seem to find a way to fight through the distrust.
This is a wellchiseled story about a search for home and also about objects and people splitting,

I wont go storybystory, blowbyblow, "The Seven Stages of Anger" focuses on regular folks finding their way, struggling to manage, sometimes trying to get a small leg up or gain a new vantage point on their worlds.


In “Zinc,” Laura leaves husband Julianbut only for a week and a half, Shes fighting the “settling” phase of marriage and sees compromises everywhere, Julian “knew the kind of people who drank too much in an attempt selfmedicate their ennui, ” What a great line. Lauras friends “had their jobs with students and the sheltered world of nonprofits, ” Many characters in these stories seem to be settling in, or battling the urge to do so,

In “There and Back,” perhaps the most actionpacked story, a motel maid named Constance keeps a wary eye on a “restless” roommate named David, who has been to jail.
She soon finds herself entangled in his dangers and they take a risk, together, in a stolen car, Constance is also nostalgic for a girlhood and home again, an underlying theme in many of these pieces but Fox gives us glimpses of what that childhood was like and we are left to wonder about the power of nostalgia.
Constance, like the narrator in “Apricots” and other stories, is concerned about sameness and the status quo,

Traps, coops, cages, predicaments, being stuckthe theme persists, In “The House,” a young mother fights agoraphobiaor maybe shes just relaxing into it, In “The

Eggshells of Everything,” a teenager makes what is likely the first big decision of her life in a quest for a place to belong and feel connected.
The environment plays a big role, too, but its as much grayness as blue skiesweeds, dying flowers, rocks and dirt.
The overall feeling is hardscrabble and, in many cases, handtomouth, Fox brings a dry, clean style to show us these scenes her emphasis is on clarity,

And what to make of the title story It offers the only meta, abstract story in the slim volume.
The seven stages are neon, lambs wool, peacock, topaz, carbon, tongue and chameleon and each 'stage' gets its own substory.
Reading this is like looking through a kaleidoscopeshakeand look again, The story comes at the facts and moods from a variety of angles and lenses,

In all, these eleven stories give life to overlooked, struggling women in hard corners of the world.
Many have found their own means of selfmedicating their ennui, of finding ways to endure, They all have their way of peering around the corner at whats next and hoping, in most cases, for the best.


Beautiful writing, memorable moments, a strong point of view, prose and story in perfect sync, Whats not to like

By the way, Wendy J, Fox answered some questions on my book review site if you'd like to read more: sitelink me/plqDAF Ms, Fox's stories illuminate the lives of people who are still searching for happiness in a world that seems to enjoy withholding it.
While the book is slight, the stories inside pack a big wallop, I had the pleasure of asking Ms, Fox about her work in an interview:

sitelinkThe Great Writers Steal Experience: Wendy J, Fox, author of The Seven Stages of Anger
I'm learning that I enjoy short stories, and here's another collection that I'd recommend.
I loved the writing, and most of the stories, My favorites were "The Car" and "Ten Penny" though thee was only one that I didn't finish and now I can't remember which one that was.
These are vignettes of interesting but ordinary people, Some of them you will recognize in yourself, Definitely worth the read. Wendy is an amazingly descriptive writer and has surprising indepth knowledge about even the most minute detail and facts.
All of which make the book a delight to devour, The Seven Stages of Anger and Other Stories in the first winner of the PressAward for Short Fiction, selected by Kevin Morgan Watson, Publisher, and Christine Norris, Fiction Editor.
Carol Guess, author of Darling Endangered and Doll Studies: Forensics, says, "What happens when a still life speaks Wendy J.
Fox invites us to eavesdrop, These beautiful, lyrical stories describe ordinary lives: speckled eggshells, creeping vines, Here's the threat of fire out east and endless rain when the map meets Seattle, Here are characters so real you know them already, They've misplaced your keys and borrowed your car, " The complications of romantic partnerships are often explored in fiction, but rarely with the depth and insight that Wendy J.
Fox brings to her début story collection, The Seven Stages of Anger,

Through several stories, and through the perspectives of multiple characters, Fox suggests that happenstance, circumstance, and inertiaas unromantic as they may becan play a much larger role in how relationships form, sustain themselves, or die than we may like to think.
As for destiny and fate, for the most part, they are the stuff of fairytales,

The perceptiveness and beauty of The Seven Stages of Anger make it well worth a read, and it is clear why this collection won the first PressAward for Short Fiction.
For my full review, see sitelink com/theseven . The writing was beautiful, breathtaking, even, Made me slow down to enjoy it the descriptions, the originality, It made me marvel. Plenty to discuss, fully developed characters and interesting ideas, Book clubs might want to discuss Love, Family, Uncertainty, Fire Motif, Dirt Motif, Relationship Fractures, Being grateful for temporary love that heals and vanishes but reverberates, Destruction, Safety.
"There is no God, only family, " Wendy J. Fox is the author of four books of fiction, including the novel If the Ice Had Held and the forthcoming collection What If We Were Somewhere Else.
She has written for The Rumpus, Buzzfeed, Self, Business Insider, and Ms, and her work has appeared in literary magazines including Washington Square, Euphony, and Painted Bride Quarterly, More at sitelink www. wendyjfox. com. Wendy J. Fox is the author of four books of fiction, including the novel If the Ice Had Held and the forthcoming collection What If We Were Somewhere Else.
She has written for The Rumpus, Buzzfeed, Self, Business Insider, and Ms, and her work has appeared in literary magazines including Washington Square, Euphony, and Painted Bride Quarterly, More at sitelink www. wendyjfox. com. sitelink.