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The story grew out of a prompt that novelist W.P. Kinsella gave me in a writing workshop many years ago—a title, “Bad Guts.” In developing a story to go with the title I tried to imagine a morally exhausted man who does not want to go to work—and how, when he does finally go to work, everything falls apart. This story contains beer and clowns and heat and chitlins—a extraordinarily odd and volatile combination….
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From experience I know that hard travel makes people cranky and prone to make bad decisions, and crankiness and inept decision-making can increase when people are tired and forced into physical if not emotional intimacy. So, writing: imagine a tired and cranky man and woman. Give the woman a legitimate complaint. Make the man unaware/uncaring of her complaint. Stick them in a truck in the middle of the Yukon and see what happens....
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