Fence

Authors

  • Ira Sukrungruang University of South Florida Author

Keywords:

manual labor, masculinity, outsiders, rural America, marriage, friendship

Abstract

In this short story, a small-town hardware store owner and his enigmatic drifter employee Conrad, who has seduced a menacing neighbor’s daughter, are hired to build the man a vast fence by hand in twenty-four straight hours.

Author Biography

  • Ira Sukrungruang, University of South Florida

    Ira Sukrungruang is the author of the memoirs Southside Buddhist and Talk Thai: The Adventures of Buddhist Boy, and the poetry collection In Thailand It Is Night. He is the coeditor of two anthologies on the topic of obesity: What Are You Looking At? The First Fat Fiction Anthology and Scoot Over, Skinny: The Fat Nonfiction Anthology. He is the recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Nonfiction Literature, an Arts and Letters Fellowship, and the Emerging Writer Fellowship. His work has appeared in many literary journals, including Post Road, The Sun, and Creative Nonfiction. He is one of the founding editors of Sweet: A Literary Confection (sweetlit.com), and teaches in the MFA program at University of South Florida and the low-residency MFA program at City University in Hong Kong. For more information about him, please visit: www.buddhistboy.com.

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Published

2015-09-30

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 1 (2015): Maestro

Section

Creative Works

How to Cite

Sukrungruang, Ira. “Fence”. The Mailer Review, vol. 9, no. 1, Sept. 2015, pp. 352–363, https://mailerreview.org/journal/article/view/539.