The Middle Ground ― Stories

The middle ground is a place we’ve all crossed, the halfway point between who you are and who you want to be. In Jeff Ewing’s collection of stories, his diversely American characters call it home. From a story of a man living in the shadow of an abandoned missile silo that may hold the answer to a mystery of vanished children, to one of a small-town beauty tentatively courting stardom, Ewing’s sparse, musical prose illuminates lives lived in that space between fear and courage, hope and regret, life and death. Fog remembers, revenge beckons, and loneliness gives birth to fragile beauty—while in the distance the future gleams on a car hood, daring bold hands to seize it.

Jeff Ewing is a playwright, poet, technical writer, and editor. His fiction has been widely published in prominent literary magazines, including Atticus Review, Crazyhorse, Juked, and New World Writing. His poems can be found in numerous literary journals, including Atlanta Review, Catamaran, Tar River Poetry, and Willow Springs. His full-length play The Middle of Nowhere received the Maxim Mazumdar New Play Award and world premiered at the Alleyway Theatre in Buffalo, New York. His one-act plays have won the FirstStage Prize and have been featured in the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival. He lives in Sacramento, California.