Ron Rash's "bleak" collection of short stories set in Appalachia, Burning Bright, has won the 2010 Frank O'Connor award, the world's richest prize for the short story form. Read Hard Times, the first story in the collection, courtesy of Ecco/HarperCollins Publishers
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