Description
RED MOUNTAIN CUT
by Steve Brammell
$20.99, Short story, paper
978-1-64662-384-6
2021
Steve Brammell was raised in Indiana where he attended Wabash College. He has worked as a freelance writer for various publications including Alabama Magazine and Birmingham Magazine as well as industries and medical institutions. His poems and short fiction have appeared in journals such as RavensPerch, Northwest Indiana Literary Journal, White Wall Review, The Tiny Seed Literary Journal, The Write Launch, Flying Island Journal, Cathexis Northwest Press, Toho Journal and The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature. Steve has also enjoyed a parallel career in the restaurant and wine business for the past 25 years. He and his wife live in Indianapolis where he is a member of the Indiana Writers Center.
Seth McCullum –
A Vietnam vet makes a flute from bamboo to redeem the past, an executive drives his mother’s ashes to the Gulf, a woman paddles away from her daughter’s graduation party on Lake Martin, a musician finishes his song during a tornado, a psychiatrist is struck by lightning – Red Mountain Cut’s short stories were written for Birmingham Magazine as a way to illuminate the complexity of life in a modern Southern city. Now they are available here as a book.
– Seth McCullum
steve Brammell –
The details in these stories are so originally expressed, so microscopic, that they become sensory. I can not only see, but acquire in my own body, what they are describing. And I believe I’m the one telling the story.
— Michael Lynam
Thomas K. Christensen –
Brammell’s book, Red Mountain Cut, is a diverse collection of short stories that tell of life experiences and feelings. They are told in a direct and sincere manner.
It is easy for one to imagine the different settings, traditions and people by the vivid details in his short stories. Each reader will respond in their own particular way as we each have had similar life experiences and feelings. It is well worth the read.
Bert Stern –
The prose has real beauty, and the judgment shows real refinement. – Bert Stern
Stern is Milligan Professor of English Emeritus at Wabash College and author of Silk/The Ragpicker’s Grandson, Steerage, What I Got For the Dollar, and Wallace Stevens:Art of Uncertainty.