The Stones of Riverton
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Description
The Stones of Riverton is a collection of linked short stories and novelettes inspired by the gravestones in a small Maine town. The stories are bound together by place and ancestry spanning over 200 hundred years. They un-bury an often shameful history of unexplained deaths and deeply held secrets in a town that is divided both economically and culturally. While fictional, the stories are grounded in the lore, rumors, and fables that were told to the author by parents, grandparents, and local storytellers.
ISBN
9781684751068
Publication Date
9-2023
Publisher
Down East Books
Keywords
Alumni Books, Short Stories, Fiction, Lore, Fable, Unexplained Death
Recommended Citation
Travers, Clif MFA, "The Stones of Riverton" (2023). Faculty, Staff, and Alumni Books. 680.
https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/facbooks/680
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ABOUT THIS AUTHOR
Clif Travers began writing these stories while earning his MFA from Stonecoast at the University of Maine. At that time, he had been living in Brooklyn, New York for fifteen years, but he fell in love with his home state again, moved back, and finished the book. Seven of the stories have been published in literary journals and anthologies, such as Crack the Spine Year-end Anthology, freeze frame fiction, Dime Show Review, Bell Coffin Journal, and Underwood Press. Clifs lives in Portland, Maine.