Aspen, CO: MacMurray & Beck, 1994. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first book, a collection of nine interconnected stories (plus the Red Spot Employee Statistics) set in a small Western town and published in a small printing of only 6000 copies. Winner of the 1995 Mountains and Plains Book Regional Book Award; the American Academy of Arts & Letters Award; the Richard & Hinda Rosenthal Outstanding Literary Fiction Award and a Pen/Hemingway Nominee for Best Fiction. Dust jacket praise from such writers as E. Annie Proulx ("Stygo rocks with wild hard writing"), Russell Banks and Andre Dubus. SIGNED on the half title page. 225 pp. ISBN: 1-878448-595.