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In the tradition of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, the Lakeville of Jason Kapcala's excellent story collection offers up a community of misfits whose unsteady lives are driven by alcohol, infidelity, and a perpetual failure to escape their baser selves. These are rich stories that explore the seedier side of small-town American life.
―Clint McCown, author of Haints

In the stories that make up North to Lakeville, Jason Kapcala reveals memorable characters in heartbreaking situations, told with the precision of a poet's sense of language. Through their foibles and small victories, we are reminded how extraordinary it is to be an ordinary human, the mark of a master storyteller.
―Renée K. Nicholson, author of Roundabout Directions to Lincoln Center

Lakeville is beautiful. I felt like I knew or wanted to know so many of the characters in this haunting, funny, and sharply observed collection. Each story holds a searing truth. Each narrator's voice is authentic. The people in Kapcala’s landscape see their world fully—the hardship, the humor, the dubious things we do because it made perfect sense at the time, the many wounded ways we try to love each other. Perfect for a stormy night with a warm fire and a good bottle of whiskey.​
―Rebecca Barry, author of Later, at the Bar

When Kapcala flips over the log and exposes the worms and the dirt, his stories shed the haze of sun-soaked memory and become grit-filled tales of small-town lives ruined by their own self-destructive urges. Kapcala’s at his best when he’s at his darkest.
―East Bay Review
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Accident Ferris Wheel
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Warning: Keep off the Bridge

IN PROGRESS . . .

THE MOURNING AFTERS
A Rock Comic-Epic


Failed rock star, Kev Cassady, returns home to the condemned mining town of Accident, Pennsylvania, to attend his ex-guitarist's funeral and must face the remaining members of The Mourning Afters, the band he left behind.
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Desert Highway

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RIEUX
A Novel


Haunted by her past, former police officer Stefani Rieux is drawn to a remote badlands town, after she sees a news report recounting the unsolved murder of two college students—one of whom shared her name. Meanwhile, aerospace journalist Grady Hale searches for answers to what happened to his stepdaughter, and 14-year-old Noemi Delgado runs from a man who may have had something to do with her sister's death.
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Metal Cows

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KILLING SACRED COWS

Unconventional Thoughts About the Craft of Fiction


Writing workshops and popular craft books don’t always dispense the best advice. Author Jason Kapcala (North to Lakeville) bluntly and humorously tears down the tired myths and worn-out clichés that stand between you and artful storytelling.​
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