Fiction. Sprung from the first line of a Gerard Manley Hopkins poem, THIS DARKSOME BURN is a fierce rendition of our feeble attempts to control nature's obstinate force. Indeed, for one man, toughness and tenacity prove no match for the unpredictable wilderness of the shadowing Siskiyou Mountains or his own bereft emotional frontier. Coursing through Luke's life, sweeping away emotional touchstones and spiritual ballasts, the prophetic stream in Nick Ripatrazone's grim novella comes "roaring down" and wends its devious way into the reader's psyche, where it punishes and pardons.
This Darksome Burn
