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What the Children See

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From the innocent yet unsettling eyes of children navigating life's harsh truths, step into the hauntingly beautiful world of Gregory Wolos in this provocative, breathtaking collection of short stories that explore the hidden depths of childhood memories, fractured realities, and relationships with vivid, emotionally charged moments where reality blurs seamlessly with imagination, and past traumas echo inside of extraordinary revelations.

Product Details

PublisherPierian Springs Press
Publish DateApril 24, 2025
Pages266
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9781965784013
Dimensions8.5 X 5.5 X 0.6 inches | 0.7 pounds

About the Author

Having raised two children and spent more than three decades as an educator in upstate New York, Gregory Wolos currently resides with his wife of forty-four years in a small town not far from Boston, Massachusetts. Gregory's daily regimen includes writing, running, and tending grandchildren. He holds a doctorate from the University at Albany. Over one hundred of Gregory's short stories have been published in journals and anthologies like Glimmer Train, Georgia Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, descant, Florida Review, The Pinch, Post Road, Baltimore Review, Los Angeles Review, Tahoma Literary Review, Southern Humanities Review, and many others. Gregory's work has won monetary awards sponsored by Solstice, descant, Gulf Stream, New South, the Rubery Book Awards, Emrys Journal, Gambling the Aisle, and the White Eagle Coffee Store Press. Gregory has published four story collections: Women of Consequence (Regal House Publishing, 2019), Dear Everyone (Duck Lake Books, 2020), The Green Ray and Other Stories (Scantic Books, 2022), and The Thing About Men (Cervena Barva Press, 2023). More often than not Gregory's stories reflect Kafka's assertion that a literary work "should be an ice axe to break up the frozen sea inside us." His debut novel, T'ings, has recently been released by Silver Bow Publishing."

Reviews

These wise, wry, and wildly entertaining stories will remind you why you fell in love with fiction in the first place. Wolos pays attention to our world, celebrates our fragile and complicated lives, and opens a space in front of us so we can see more clearly.

John Dufresne, author of I Don't Like Where This Is Going

Wolos is at the pinnacle of his conspicuous talent, and that is really saying something because his previous short fiction collections occupy a prominent place in the pantheon of best short fiction. By any measure, he is one of the most original and adept writers at work today.

Michael C. Keith, author of Pings and Methods of Repair

Injuries and afflictions abound in The Thing About Men. Gregory Wolos keeps his compelling collection attuned to complications of recovery, while illuminating, with care and craft, the wounds most in need of wary monitoring: those that persist beneath 'the top layer of things.' In story after fine story, Wolos urges all of us to delve deeper.

Matthew Pitt, author of These Are Our Demands

Wolos has done something necessary... storytelling, creation, frailty, and trying (and mostly failing) to see the world for what it really is. How have we gotten by all this time without it?

Matthew Thomas Meade, author of These Are Our Demands

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