Literary Fiction
You Will Never See Any God
2014·180 pages
A haunting collection of stories by Ervin D. Krause, exploring cruelty, nature's indifference, and tragic human desires.
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A haunting collection of stories by Ervin D. Krause, exploring cruelty, nature's indifference, and tragic human desires.
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A farmer perishing under a fallen tractor makes a last stab at philosophizing: “There was nothing dead that was ever beautiful.” It is a sentiment belied not only by the strange beauty in his story but also in the rough lives and deaths, small and large, that fill these haunting tales. Pulp-fiction grim and gritty but with the rhythm and resonance of classic folklore, these stories take place in a world of shadowy figures and childhood fears, in a countryside peopled by witches and skinflints, b...
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Sexual content
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Affairs in cars; recurring sensual content across stories
Violence & gore
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Farm deaths, hunting, and grim on-page violence and cruelty
Profanity
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Substance use
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Heavy saloon drinking; characters get sloshed
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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Faith questioned; title and themes spar with God and morals
Magic & witchcraft
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Folk atmosphere of witches in the rural countryside
Occult / demonology
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Political content
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Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Matter-of-fact cruelty; neighbors terrorized; harsh rural suffering
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