Texquisite Corpse

A story in twelve parts and twelve voices.

Twin Wells

Chapter One: A stranger comes to town. by Elmer Kelton

Elmer Kelton is the author of more than forty novels, including The Time It Never Rained, The Wolf and the Buffalo, and The Good Old Boys, as well as Hard Trail to Follow, to be released this month. He lives in San Angelo.

Chapter Two: The Mustang Room. by Dominic Smith

Dominic Smith grew up in Australia and now lives in Austin. He is the author of The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre, which received the Steven Turner Award for Best Work of First Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters. His second novel, The Beautiful Miscellaneous, was published in June.

Chapter Three: The Gunslinger. by David Searcy

David Searcy is the author of two novels, Ordinary Horror and Last Things, and recently finished his third, A Water Telescope. In 2002 he received a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship. He lives in Dallas.

Chapter Four: Katherine’s Neck. by Amanda Eyre Ward

Amanda Eyre Ward is a novelist who lives in Austin. Her third novel, Forgive Me, has just been published in paperback by Random House.

Chapter Five: The Emerald Mule. by Will Clarke

Will Clarke, a native of Shreveport, Louisiana, is the author of Lord Vishnu’s Love Handles: A Spy Novel (Sort Of) and The Worthy: A Ghost’s Story. He lives in Dallas.

Chapter Six: The Escape. by Harry Hunsicker

Harry Hunsicker lives in Dallas, where he writes crime thrillers about a private investigator named Lee Henry Oswald. His debut novel, Still River, was nominated for a Shamus Award. He currently serves as the executive vice president of Mystery Writers of America.

Chapter Seven: The hospitality of the county. by Ben Fountain

Ben Fountain is the author of the story collection Brief Encounters With Che Guevara. He has won an O. Henry Prize, two Pushcart prizes, and the PEN/Hemingway Award. He lives with his wife and their two children in Dallas.