Clifden Moth, earwig, true bug, ant yellow mother, cockroach, house cricket, glowworm, bush cricket, dragonfly, walking stick, squash bug, ground beetle, goat moth, leaf hopper, rove beetle, true bug, tiger moth, ground bug, praying mantis, checkered beetle, honey bee, ladybug, weevil, human flea, horsefly, dragonfly, fire bug, diving beetle, stag beetle, homet, caddis fly, longhorn beetle.

Two Mormon boys wearing backpacks walk toward Guerrero. They look clean, nice. They appear to have no grit or irony. One of them seems, for a moment, to offer a promise of sullenness, a slack in his walk, the hem of his pressed blue pants almost touching the sidewalk, but I think it’s just his shoe isn’t fitting him right.

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Nona Caspers’ book of stories Heavier Than Air (University of Massachusettes Press) won the AWP Grace Paley Short Fiction Prize. A Book of One Hundred Days will be available from Spuyten Duyvil in Fall 2007. Her work has been honored with a Joseph Henry Jackson Literary Grant and Award and a Barbara Deming Grant and Award and has appeared in Ontario Review, Cimarron Review, Iowa Review, Fourteen Hills, and New Standards: The First Decade of Fiction at Fourteen Hills, among others.

The above is an excerpt of A Book of One Hundred Days.

Other works on Sidebrow: Day Three, Day Nine, Day Ten, Day Eleven, Day Twenty-two & Day Twenty-three