Acknowledgments; Contents; Doppelgänger; One; Winter Ghazal; Diorama; The Neighbors Upstairs; The Lover; Ink; The Illusionist; The Artifact; Intersection; Two; The Curlew; On a Chinese Festival Scene Carved into the Casque of a Helmeted Hornbill; Harvest; Crop Circles; Automaton; A Summer Primer; Nocturne; Three; The Baptist; The Devil in Grand Saline; Babel; An Apostate's Prayer; The Pastor's Wife; The Lepidopterist; The Somnambulist; La Llorona; Tenebrae; Four; Overheard; Digging My Father's Grave; The Orchard; Auguress; The Choice; Horoscope for My Dying Father; School Bus Graveyard; Five
The Seven ThundersAdvent; Destin Wedding; The Pastor; Übermensch; The Mime of Thermopylae; The Cooling Pond; Photo Found on a Dead Man's Phone; The End of the Sermon
Summary
Penumbra-Michael Shewmaker's debut collection-explores the half-shadows of a world torn between faith and doubt
