David Means' sixth short story collection, 'Two Nurses, Smoking,' asks profound questions by joining deep character studies to clever literary devices.
The idea of blown chances, of lost opportunities, looms large throughout David Means’ fourth collection of short fiction.
“In this account, as much as possible, dog has been translated into human,” this presence tells us, “and like any such translation, the human version is a thin, feeble approximation of what transpired in Clementine’s mind as she stood in the woods crying and hungry, old sensations overlapping with new ones.”
More than once, Means reveals the flashpoint of a story’s ignition — as in the title piece, which revolves around two medical techs who, over a period of months, come to a tenuous intimacy.
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