James Boice

• May-2007
• / General Fiction
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Superstar Gilbert Marcus rapes and kills a young woman in a hotel room during the off-season. That's the prologue. MVP is Marcus's life story from conception to his act of incredible violence. Raised an only child -- the son of a difficult and demand...

• Jan-2009
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Grayson Donald, seventeen years old, has just hanged himself from a basketball hoop next to a playground in Centreville, North Virginia (NoVA). The question is, Why? In this incisive dissection of the author's hometown, James Boice scratches its shin...

• Jun-2011
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It's the thirty-fourth century and the nuclear apocalypse has come and gone. Civilization has rebuilt itself, and the results are eerily similar to the early part of the twenty-first century. But there are a few notable differences. Visa owns everyth...

• Feb-2012
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• May-2012
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A short story originally published in 2003 in McSweeney’s 12, reissued here by the author. Goes a little something like this:Excerpt:Walking my dog through a strip mall after the rain, pregnant girl walks out of the baby clothes store, lights a cig...

• Nov-2012
• / Literary
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A DIY, independently produced short story from the author of the novels THE GOOD AND THE GHASTLY (Scribner, 2011) and MVP (Scribner, 2007). A genius engineer is torn between love, death and his obsession with his work: perfecting a piece of technolog...

• Sep-2016
• / Literary
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Meet the most hated woman in America: Jenny Sanders (also known as the country’s most successful gun control advocate). On her way to New York City, to the site of yet another shooting, she encounters one of her many opponents. Their shocking colli...

• Sep-2018
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The legendary 1950s-era TV show Happy Days gets reinvented as a gritty 1980s noir. Late October, 1984. Prince and Bruce are dominating FM radio. Ron and Nancy are headed back to the White House. Crockett and Tubbs are leading men everywhere to em...