Short Bus Author:Brian Allen Carr Short Bus is a muscly and energetic collection of linked short fictions plagued with deformed characters who crunch through life in the southern haunts of Texas. Fetuses sport mustaches, testicles don tuxedos, a melted-faced track star keeps sweethearts by the dozens. Often tender and bitter against the same taste bud, this wicked debut collecti... more »on breathes life into the American Southwest. There are hints here of McCarthy, Hannah, Burroughs and Garrett in the voice, but the structure sings of ...y no se lo tragó la tierra. The entire approach is refreshing. Carr's fiction is a new animal--untamed--and Short Bus will cut a welcomed wound across your heart.« less