Three fingers and a crust of dead stump, but what was there, there was plenty for a boy needing to become a man in the West. No, not boy, but the Kid; the real Apache man with the half hand called him Kid, though Kid’s name it was not yet.
Not earned, and not three fingers but two old fingers and a half thumb was that hand. The rest missing, the bones cleaved, or fallen off, or what exactly did a Kid say once rattlesnake injected poison so long ago, that the rest of the hand was stolen off the old Apache man forever?
What mattered was the desert, the call to count, and above all full lore of the West, Kid might get hold of and keep! If you could mount up and count, if you could beat that Apache who sent the guts out of you, once, you, Kid thought, meaning him, he, might count and have guts once and for the rest of his life might have them, and here he was at a desert ranch, horseracing the man with the half hand halved from rattlesnake hunting barehanded.
Kid was called to ride and count against the old Apache who the Kid called Corporal. All morning Kid had been going wrong, Out for guts with no guts. His horse a thing he forgets and should not forget. His speed, his gripping crop, his wheat- ed mane in the dust. Sun of the desert’s red and blonde. Sage, shadow of salt scrub, chaparral—racing through the cholla, saguaro, barrel and yucca and dust.
Praise for Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours “About twenty pages into Luke B. Goebel’s Fourteen Stores, None of Them Are Yours, I realized I was reading with one hand holding my forehead and one balled at my waist, kind of clenched and gazing down into the paper, like a man soon to be converged upon. Goebel’s testimony comes on like that: engrossing, fanatical, full of private grief, and yet, at the same time, charismatic, tender, and intrepid, aglow with more spirit than most Americans have the right to wield.”
—Blake Butler, author of Nothing and Scorch Adlas “T’m in love with language again, because Luke B. Goebel is not afraid to take us back through the gullet of loss into the chaos of words. Someone burns a manuscript in Texas; someone’s speed sets a life on fire; a heart is beaten nearly to death, the road itself is the trip, a man is decreated back to his animal past—better, beyond ego, beautiful, and look: there’s an American dreamscape left.
There’s a reason to go on.” —Lidia Yuknavitch, author of Lzbertys Excess and Dora: A Headcase “Luke may be one of the last few geniuses we have left in this life. I mean that. He’s a good boy with a lot of pain in his heart.” —Scott McClanahan, author of Crapalachia and Hill William “The protagonist of Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours doesn’t make it easy for us, channeling as he does Barry Hannah and Denis Johnson by way of Rick Bass and Dennis Hopper, and self- presenting as yet another damaged romantic who thinks it’s always time to play the cowboy, skating in and out of sense.
He can’t see right, and he’s haunted by nearly everything, He’s trying to open up or shut himself down or at least get a hold of himself. He’s trying to make do with what he’s done, while he reminds us that we’te all, one way or another, in that position.” —Jim Shepard, National Book Award finalist and author of the short story collections You Think That’s Bad and Like Youd Understand, Anyway 3 0036 01193 4880 FOUKT EEN STOKTES, NONE OF THEM ARE VOCS a novel LUKE B.
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