{"product_id":"some-kinds-of-love-stories-paperback","title":"Some Kinds of Love: Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSteve Yates\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSometimes the opposite of love is not hate, but depravity. In these twelve stories set in the Missouri Ozarks, New Orleans, and Mississippi, Steve Yates reveals lovers clawing back from precipices of destructiveness, obsessiveness, cruelty, vanity, or greed. They seek escape and yet find new barriers, realizing true love may not be at all what they imagined. Pioneers, limestone quarry owners, young German American Civil War survivors, bankers, sex toy catalog designers, highway engineers, Pakistani terrorists, attorneys, missile guidance masterminds, and furniture factory workers (who can see the future) populate these pieces. From the Ozarks of the 1830s, when locals perceive doomsday in a historic starfall, to the near future at an all-night slow-pitch softball tournament when the apocalypse looms yet again, these stories chart the dark side of love, the ties that bind families, and the sweet complications of human desire. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection was chosen by Sabina Murray as the eighth winner of the Juniper Prize for Fiction, and was originally published by The University of Massachusetts Press in 2013. These stories first appeared in \u003cem\u003eHarrington Gay Men's Literary Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Missouri Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNebraska Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePhoebe\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe North Dakota Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSouthwest Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTexas Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTriQuarterly\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTurnstile\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eValley Voices\u003c\/em\u003e, and the \u003cem\u003eWestern Humanities Review\u003c\/em\u003e. The story \"Mila Joins the Game\" was a national fiction contest winner and published in \u003cem\u003eAnalecta\u003c\/em\u003e. The story \"Starfall\" was anthologized in \u003cem\u003eThe Literature of the Ozarks\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.68 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 20, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47497485091037,"sku":"9798218739065","price":29.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/MYLz2rCMcm9798218739065.webp?v=1771980807","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/some-kinds-of-love-stories-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}