Scars and Dirt: Why I Teach the Modular Story
by Christopher Lowe
When meaning eludes us, we add and subtract, stack and build, until we’ve mosaicked our way deeper into the mystery.
Christopher Lowe is the author of a short story collection, Those Like Us (SFASU Press, 2011), and a fiction chapbook, When You’re Down By the River: Stories (forthcoming from Batcat Press). His fiction has appeared widely in journals including Third Coast, Bellevue Literary Review, Baltimore Review, and War, Literature, and the Arts. Originally from Mississippi, he now lives in Lake Charles, Louisiana, where he teaches English and creative writing at McNeese State University.
When meaning eludes us, we add and subtract, stack and build, until we’ve mosaicked our way deeper into the mystery.