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Dennis McFarland

Dennis McFarland is the author of several novels, most recently, Nostalgia. His short stories have appeared in such publications as the Scholar, The New Yorker, and Best American Short Stories.

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Bucksaw 

Two boys pay a visit to their father

by Dennis McFarland | Monday, June 03, 2019
Darkspur

Darkspur

by Dennis McFarland | Monday, March 06, 2017
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The Preacher’s Wife

by Dennis McFarland | Friday, September 01, 2006
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Start Off Dead

by Dennis McFarland | Monday, January 06, 2014
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Stateside

by Dennis McFarland | Friday, March 01, 2013
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Handsome Boy 

by Dennis McFarland | Friday, December 06, 2013
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The NASA You Never Hear About

by Isabelle Taft

Fifty years ago, when Neil Armstrong became the first person to set foot on the moon, the moment represented years of work and technical accomplishment. But it also left NASA struggling with a daunting new challenge: figuring out what to do next. Over the years, it has answered this question in part by highlighting the dizzying array of inventions it has inspired—some 1,500 a year. “Besides rocket science itself, perhaps the biggest thing people fail to understand about the agency is how its work has reverberated throughout the world in ways we experience directly every day,” writes Isabelle Taft. “It’s a mark of the agency’s enduring influence that even if we never make it there, we’re already living in a society forged by outer space.”