Author

Eric Puchner

Eric Puchner is the author of the novel Model Home (Scribner, 2010) and the short story collection Music Through the Floor (Scribner, 2005), which was a finalist for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award. His short stories have appeared in Glimmer Train, Zoetrope: All Story, Chicago Tribune, The Sun, Best New American Voices, and many other journals and anthologies. He was the recipient of a 2002 Joseph Henry Jacksonn Award for young California writers, a Pushcart Prize, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts grant. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and daughter. Visit him online at ericpuchner.com [2011]

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Fiction

Dec 01 2003

Diablo

Ofelio Campos stood at the edge of the eleventh sloor, dreaming of beds. He thought of showroom floors and king-sized mattresses. He thought of sultanish waterbeds spotted like leopards. He thought of pillows. He thought of freshly washed sheets, crips from the dryer, of a comforter he once slept under in a Las Vegas motel, folding him in like the wings of a bird.