Going Anywhere
Winner of the Leapfrog Global Fiction Prize 2013
These stories occupy the space between dark realities and the fantastic leaps of faith people make to survive. Connecting them is the journey: people searching for solace, insight, purpose; gathering up their lives into discernible pieces of fact and conviction, hoping to get it right.
“The many and varied characters in this compilation bring important themes to life…. It isn’t just the characters that keep the pages turning in this collection; the style and slow confidence with which Armstrong delivers his plot twists is exceptional…. Armstrong has a knack for rendering the mundane beautiful through lyrical language…. the sensation in reading this book is that one could be “going anywhere.”” —Rain Taxi Review of Books
“Controlled, poetically laconic prose . . . a perfect distillation of the ways that grief seems unfathomably large and mysterious.”—Lev Raphael, author of Rosedale in Love
“Armstrong’s characters are . . . elevated to the heights of tragedy through careful attention to detail and voice.”—Las Vegas Weekly
David Armstrong’s individual stories have won the Mississippi Review Prize, the New South Writing Contest, Jabberwock Review’s Prize for Fiction, Ardor Literary Magazine’s Fiction Contest, and Bear Deluxe Magazine’s Doug Fir Fiction Award, among others. His latest stories appear in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Mississippi Review, Baltimore Review, Carve Magazine, and online at Trop Magazine. David has a PhD in fiction from the University of Nevada Las Vegas. He is fiction editor of Witness Magazine and recipient of the Black Mountain Institute Fellowship.
